REPUBLICAN 
STATE CAMPAIGN 
TEXT-BOOK 

1916 


End Democratic Extravagance 
and Corruption in Missouri 
and Open the Books. 


ISSUED BY THE 

MISSOURI REPUBLICAN STATE 
COMMITTEE 

INTERNATIONAL LIFE BLDG. 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 





REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET, 


For President of the United States 
CHARLES E. HUGHES of New York 
For Vice-President of the United States 
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS of Indiana 

JM3PURLTCAX PJJESIDKiVTlAI. ELECTORS OF MlSSOtJUI, 

loie 

AT EARCiE 

W. H. HALLETT, Nevada, Vernon County 
LYMAN T. HAY', St. Louis. Jefferson Hotel 

FIRST I31STRICT 

C. H. TUCKER, Newark, Knox County 
SECOND DISTRICT 

F. M. FISHER, Dunlap, Grundy County 
THIRD DISTRICT 

FRANK L. PARKER, Hamilton, Caldwell County 

FOURTH DISTRICT 

CHAS. M. WARD, Dearborn, Platte County 
FIFTH DISTRICT 

A. HAV/KINSON, Kansas City, 303 Commerce Dldg-. 
SIXTH DISTRICT 
A. J. SMITH, Adrian, Bates County 
SEVENTH DiSTRiCT 

LEONARD D. MURRELL, Mar.5hall, Saline County 

EIGHTH DISTRICT 

EDGAR A. REMLEY, Columbia, Boone County 

NINTH DISTRICT 

WM. A, ULERY, Ellsberry, Lincoln County 
TENTH DISTRICT 

PRANK B. RUHR, St. Louis, 113G Chestnut St. 
ELEVENTH Di.S'lTtlCT 
S. L, WIMER, St. Louis, 5210 Garfield Ave. 
TWELFTH DISTRICT 

THEODORE J YVOLFLEY, St. Loui.s, 511 Bank of Com. Bids. 
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT 
CHAS. E. KIEFNER, Perryville, Perry Countv 
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT 
C. S. GOHN, Alton, Oreson County 
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT 
DAVID D. HOAG, Carthas^, .Ja.sper Countv 
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT 
(^HAS. E. COVERT, Houston, Texas County 

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. 

Senator in Congre.ss for Missouri 
Yv ALTER S. DICKEY, Kansas City 
Governor 

HENRY LAMM, Sedalia 
Lieutenant-Governor 
ROY F, BRITTON, St. Louis 
Secretary of State 
WM. C. AS KIN, Salem 
State Auditor 

GEORGE E. HACKMANN, Warrenton 
State Treasurer 

L. D. THOMPSON, New Bloomfield 
Attorney-General 
J.YMES H. MASON, Springfield 
Judge of Supreme Court, Division No. One 
JAMES M. JOHNSON, Kansas City 
Judge of Supreme Court, Division No. Two 
EDWARD HIGBEE, Kirksville 
State Superintendent of Schools 
I. N. EVRARD 

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. 

First District—Ed S. Brown, Edina. 

Second District—O. A. Pickett, Trenton. 

Third District—Levi T. Moulton, King Citv, 

Fourth District—Jacob Geiger, St. Joseph.’ 

Fifth District—Isaac B. Kiinbrell, Kansa.s Citv. 

Sixth District—R. O. Crawford, Eldorado Springs. 

.Seventh District—Sherman P. Houston, Malta Bend. 

Eighth Di.strict—North T. Gentry, Columbia. ' 

Nintli District—W. L. Cole, Union. 

Tenth District—Jacob E. Meeker, St. Louis. 

Eleventh District—J. H. Barto, St. Louis. 

Twelfth District—L. C. Dyer, St. Louis. 

Thirteenth District—Marion E. Rhodes, Potosi. 

Fourteenth Di.strict-r-David W. Hill, Poplar Bluff. 

Fifteenth Di.strict—Joe J. Manlovc, Peirce City. 

Sixteenth District—Ashley H, Harrison. .Steolville. 




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STATE CAMPAIGN 
TEXT-BOOK 

19!6 


End Democratic Extravagance and 
Corruption in Missouri and 
Open the Books. 


ISSUED BY THE 

MISSOURI REPUBLICAN STATE 
COMMITTEE 

INTERNATIONAL LIFE BLDG. 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 




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Henry Lamm 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Gubernatorial 

Candidate. 


THE DATES. 

Born—Near Burbank, Wayne County, Ohio, Dec. 1846. 

Graduation—From Michigan University, Academic Depart¬ 
ment, 1869. 

Came to Missouri—1869. 

Admitted to Bar—1871. 

Elected Prosecuting Attorney of Pettis County—1884. 
Elected to the Missouri Supreme Court—1904. 

Married—To Grace Adela Rose, at East Saginaw, Michigan, 
.lime 18, 1874. 


.Judge Henry Lamm, the Republican candidate for governor, 
was born near the little village of Burbank, Ohio, on December 
o, 1846, of parents who came from Berks County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, where their ancestors, originally from Germany, had 
settled before the Revolutionary War. His boyhood was spent 
on the farm and his early education was in the rural common 
schools. He took some studies in Canaan Academy, a home 
institution, and afterward attended Michigan University, from 
the academic department of which he graduated in 1869. That 
same year he moved to Missouri and took up his home at 
Sedalia, where he taught school and studied law. He was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar in 1871 and practiced for thirty years as the 
junior partner of the firm of Sangree and Lamm. He was for 






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tour years prosecuting attorney of Pettis County, taking the 
place because it was in line with his profession and offered an 
oportunity to do some things that he conceived ought to be 
done. Beyond this, he declined many opportunities to get pub¬ 
lic office and devoted himself earnestly to his professional 
work with the highest conception of its duties and responsi¬ 
bilities. In 1902, the Republican judicial convention at Joplin 
nominated him for Judge of the Supreme Court, but he went 
down that year with the rest of the state ticket. Two years 
later he was again nominated for the same office and was 
elected. He held this office until the expiration of his full 
term in 1915. 

As a young man, Henry Lamm enlisted in the union army, 
but his father interfered against his acceptance by the re¬ 
cruiting officer and he was dropped from the roll, very much 
to his own disappointment. A little later he became a student 
at Ann Arbor, where he and a comrade kept house for them¬ 
selves for three years in a two-room box-shanty which they 
had built for themselves on a small piece of rented ground. 

His law studies were under much the same circumstances. 
He taught school and gave his extra hours to poring over the 
law books of a Sedalia legal firm, which privilege he obtained 
by sweeping out the office and building fires in the morning. 
His admission to the bar followed an examination that was 
most creditable when these circumstances were taken into 
account. A law partnership with Peter H. Sangree follow¬ 
ed, and this was only terminated by Judge Lamm's elevation 
to the bench in 1905. 

Ten years on the bench of the highest court of the state 
means prestige in the profession. There are inviting oppor¬ 
tunities for retiring judges in so-called larger fields. But 
when Judge Lamm retired, he went back to his old home and 
and friends in Sedalia. He formed a partnership with John 
D. Bohling and his son, Sangree Lamm, and there he is today. 

There was no variableness in the student, Henry Lamm.- 
There has been no variableness in the man, Henry Lamm. 
^Vhen he became a Missourian by adoption, he settled his 
citizenship for life. As his five children grew he sent them 
to Missouri institutions. 

Judge Lamm has been a worker. He acquired the habit in 
his boyhood. Back in the Western Reserve he farmed in 
summer and learned a trade in winter. It was the custom in 
that time to raise a patch of broom corn on the farm. Dur¬ 
ing the winter months the children, in addition to attending 
school, learned to make brooms, and Henry Lamm served 
the fireside apprenticeship in broom-making. In his man¬ 
hood he has kept close to nature. Tramping about Missouri 
has been his favorite recreation. No other man today knows 
the Ozarks better. Henry Lamm has camped by hundreds 
of Missouri springs and floated down dozens of Missouri 
rivers. 

Judge Lamm's humor is a part of himself. Hard as he had 
to worK at college, he was the joy of his class. His wit 
sparkles in his conversation. It could not be suppressed 
when elevation came to the Supreme Court. 

After hearing decisions read from the bench, an old attor¬ 
ney followed Judge Lamm into chamoers and said: “Judge, 
a hundred years from now your opinions, will be read with 
delight by our posterity.” 

“:\Iy! my!” exclaimed the judge, “is it possible I’ll have 
to wait that long to be appreciated?” 


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Into numberless opinions Judge Lamm has written his 
homely illustrations, his epigrams, his humorous observations, 
but to quote one of his associaties on the bench, “He has 
written the law in an interesting way without once lowering 
its dignity, or the strength of his argument, or the usefulness 
of the court.” 

Perhaps no other action in his ten years on the Supreme 
l)ench gave Judge Lamm more satisfaction than his part in 
setting Missouri right on the vital question of purity of elec¬ 
tions. It was not difficult for him to reverse previous de¬ 
cisions. In his opinions are found such views as these: 

“One - of the inherent rights of every court is the right 
to change its mind.” 

“This being a court of errors, we sit to correct our own as 
well as those of others.” 

Judge Lamm based his course in the ballot box upon this 
broad principle, which he applied in other decisions. 

“In the affairs of men there is no place under the sun 
where fraud should be permitted to take sanctuary and claim 
indemnity from pursuit, discovery and punishment.” 

Speaker Champ Clark has paid this tribute to the Bible. 
“To say nothing of its religious value, it is the best book in 
the world to quote from.” Scattered through Judge Lamm’s 
opinions are many references drawn from that source. In 
case of negligence. Judge Lamm found the Mosaic law cu¬ 
riously applicable. 

“That the absence of guard rails is reprehensible, in cer¬ 
tain contingencies, was a fixed idea in very ancient times in 
the East, where people in the cool of the evening habitually 
slept on housetops. ‘When thou buildest a new house, 
then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof that thou bring 
not blood upon thy house if any man fall from thence.’ 
(Deut. 22:8.) The modern idea of the necessity of guard 
rails on* sidewalks and along deep excavations may take root 
in that venerable law of Moses, for all I know.” 

How well Judge Lamm has read his Bible may be judged 
from these: 

“Attend to the great Solomon, who says: ‘Surely, the 
wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood.’ Seizing that Pro¬ 
verb as applicable to jurisprudence. Lord Bacon saith: ‘And 
where the wine press is hard wrought, it yields a harsh wine 
which tastes of the grape stone.’ Judges must beware of 
hard constructions and strained inferences.” 

“Restitution is the beginning of reformation, even as the 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” 

In the case of the State against a railroad, referring to a 
statute which made it a crime for a certain class of men— 
railroad men—not to v/ork on Sunday, the majority of the 
Court held the law constitutional, but Judge Lamm, with two 
of the other judges concurring, wrote a dissenting opinion 
attacking the constitutionality of the law as infringing on the 
constitutional right to liberty of conscience. He argued in 
favor of the proposition that freedom from labor on Sunday 
was a right of conscience, and that a law which made it a 
crime not to work on Sunday was unconstitutional. That 
was a great case and his dissenting opinion is great reading 
to those who believe in a day of rest; one day in seven pro¬ 
tected by law. 


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Judge Lamm believes in “rooting citizens to the soil of 
their country.” This is a Uamm inheritance. It comes down 
through those three generations of farmers who preceded 
him. Great Grandfather Peter Lamm came over in 1740, tak¬ 
ing voyage.by the l)rig Lydia Jane at Rotterdam, and landing 
at Philadelphia. He settled on a farm in Heidelberg township, 
of Berks county. Eastern Pennsylvania. Grandfather Philip 
Lamm, born during the American Revolution, crossed the 
Alleghenies in 1803 and found cheap land in the Mahoning 
Valley of Western Penns 3 dvania. Fathej' William Lamm 
moved to Ohio with the pioneer tide in 1846, and became a 
Western Reserve farmer. What could be more in accordance 
with the Lamm traditions than to find Judge Lamm uttering 
from the bench: 

“The correct judicial attitude toward homestead laws is one 
of as great liberality of construction as their words and spirit 
permit. That courts should be quick to see and astute to aid 
the beneficial purpose of homestead statutes; for as nature 
abhors a vacuum, so an enlightened piiulic policy abhors 
paiiperage, and vagrancy. The force of homestead laws is 
spent in preventing both and all their evil attendant train.” 

“They (the homestead laws) aim at breeding the virtues 
springing from rooting citizens in the soil of their country. 
Bold and self-reliant householders are a national pride and 
defense.” 

As to the relative rights of man and corporation, Judge 
Lamm has repeatedly let it be known where he stands. In 
one of his opinion he said: 

“When in a court of justice the man is fairly in the balance 
with the dollar, then it is not sentiment only, but the cold, 
clear law to say that the man goes down in the scale, and 
U^e dollar kicks the beam. The man comes first in the law. 
It is one of the glories of the law that it is so written in the 
books.” 

“It is self-evident that, speaking broadly, whatever' relief a 
creditor has against A and B, individuals, he has against X 
and Y, corporate entities, for it would be a shame to equity 
if the discriminating eye of a chancellor, having a passion for 
justice (as Lord Campbell says Lord Holt had), or a benevo¬ 
lent solicitude for the discovery of truths (as he says Lord 
Camden had), was to be baffled by such a mere veil or screen 
as the shell of a corporate entit 5 % so that while it would see 
a wrong in individuals it would blink at the like in corpora¬ 
tions. It can never be amiss to remind ourselves that in a 
court of conscience a corporation, like a natural person, is 
required to live up to the great commandment of the law. 
viz., “To live honestlj^ not to injure another, and to give to 
each one his due.” 

The law has not been sufficient to win Judge Lamm from 
the soil. A finely bred cow was one of his earliest invest¬ 
ments. At that period he would suspend the preparation 
of a brief any time to discuss the merits of the different 
breeds of dairy cows with a farmer client. Naturally, one 
of the judge’s sons adopted the vocation of dairyman. An¬ 
other of the sons took the course of the College of Agriculture 
• at Columbia. 

Years ago the unpatriotic point was made that old soldiers 
in “homes” were paupers under the Constitution of this State, 
and therefore not entitled to vote. Missouri had two of these 
homes, one at Higginsville for Confederates, and the other at 
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attracted a sood deal of attention at the time. It found its 
way to the Supreme Court and Judge Lamm wrote the opin¬ 
ion, which held that old soldiers supported in soldiers' homes 
are not paupers in the eye of the law, although kept at public 
expense. The decision, concurred in by the whole Court, sus¬ 
tained the right of these veterans, whether Confederate or 
Union, to vote. 

A rule of reason which Judge Lamm ai)plied in his consid¬ 
eration of Supreme Court appeals was that “trial courts are 
not to be regarded as guns loaded with error.’’ He had re¬ 
spect for the verdict which came from a Missouri jury as well 
as for the instructions given by a Missouri nisi prius judge. 
In his common sense, matter-of-fact logic he reasoned: 

“Truth does not always stalk boldly forth naked, but mod¬ 
est withal, in a printed abstract in a court of last resort. She 
oftimes tried to hide in nooks and crannies, visible only to 
the mind’s eye of the judge who tries the case. To him ap¬ 
pears the furtive glance, the blush of conscious shame, the 
hesitation, the sincere or the flippant or the sneering tone, 
the heat, the calmness, the yawn, the sigh, the candor, or 
lack of it, the scant or full realization of the solemnity of 
an oath, the carriage and mien. The brazen face of the liar, 
the glibness of the schooled witness reciting a lesson, or the 
itching over-eagerness of the swift witness, as well as the 
honest face of the truthful one, are alike seen by him. In 
short, one witness may give testimony that reads in print, 
here, as if falling from the lips of an angel of light, and yet 
not a soul w'ho heard it, nisi, believQd a word of it; and an¬ 
other witness may testify so that it reads brokenly and ob¬ 
scurely in print, and yet there was that about the witness 
that carried conviction of truth to every soul who heard him 
testify. Therefore, wTiere an issue in equity rests alone in the 
credibility of witnesses, the upper court may, with entire 
propriety, rest somewhat on the superior advantage of the 
lower court in determining a fact.’’ 

The impression Judge Lamm has made outside of Missouri 
was summed up by a newspaper of high standing: “His deep 
learning in law and literature is manifest in his masterly 
opinions and he has accomplished the seemingly impossible, 
often so unsuccessfully attempted by lesser lights of the ju¬ 
diciary. in injecting the finest gems of humor in the most 
masterful analysis of the law without weakening the force 
of his logic or descending to clownishness.’’ 

Judge Lamm is a member of the Congregational Church. 
Among his own neighbors and those who otherwise know him 
best, he is recognized as a man of the highest character, 
clean, upright and just. 

His personal life has been one of singular rectitude. 


“My distinguished opponent is circulating lithographs car¬ 
rying his own picture with that of a cow, a horse and a fac¬ 
tory, and the slogan in big type, ‘Let’s put Missouri on the 
Map,’ said the judge. If Missouri is not already on the map, 
who in heaven’s name has kept it off? My opponent also says 
if he ia elected governor the police will be taken out of 
politics. If the police are now in politics, who put them 
in? He also says that if he is elected all leaks will be 
stopped. If there are leaks, who is responsil)le for them?’’ 
—Judge Henry Lamm. 



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Walter S. Dickey 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for the 
United States Senate from Missouri. 

Born—In Ontario. .June 26, 1862. 

(’ame to Missouri—1885. 

^Married—To IMiss Katherine McMullen, Sept. IS. 1889. 
Began career as manufacturer—1885. 

Member Republican City Committee—1886. 

Chairman Jackson County Republican Committee—1900. 
Delegate to Republican National Convention—1900. 
Chairman Kansas City Committee—1904. 

Chairman Eixeciitive Committee of State Committee—1904. 
Chairman of State Committee—1908. 

Delegate at Large to Republican National Convention— 
1912. 


Walter S. Dickey, the Republican candidate for United 
States Senator, was born in Ontario, Canada, on June 26, 1862. 
His father, Nathaniel Dickey, was an Irishman who came to 
I he United States in 1850 in search of personal, political and 
religious liberty. His first employment in this country was 
setting valves for the York and Erie railroad in Susquehanna. 
He later moved to Canada in pursuit of a business opportu¬ 
nity. The mother was of Revolutionary American stock, her 
ancestor having fought with General Washington, and her 
forebears having come over in the Mayflower. 

Mr. Dickey obtained his education in the common schools 
and in the Provincial Model School for Ontario. He left 
school, however, at the age of 16 and went to work as an 
entry clerk for a dry goods house at the small salary of $50 
])er year, but he always declared that the training he re¬ 
ceived was worth enough to make up a good salary. 






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He came to Missouri in 1885 and became interested in the 
manufacture of clay-pipe at Kansas City. He took steps at 
once to become naturalized and the first vote he ever cast 
was in 1886, when his new citizenship and active affiliation 
with the Republican party was recognized by his election as 
a member of the Republican City Committee, This was the 
beginning of thirty years of unselfish activity for the Re¬ 
publican cause. 

In 1889 he was mariied to Katherine L. McMullen and the 
result of this union has been five children, three sons and two 
daughters. The family has lived at Kansas City since that 
time, except for a residence of several years at Independence, 
.Missouri. 

Mr. Dickey’s father, Nathaniel Dickey, was active and prom¬ 
inent as an Irish patriot, and upon the second return of the 
great Irish leader, O’Donovan Rossa, to this country in 1884, 
he was given the honor at New York, in behalf of many Irish¬ 
men, assembled from all parts of the country, of making the 
address of welcome. 

In the manufacture of vitrified salt-glazed sanitary sewer 
pipe and other clay products, in the Middle Southwestern 
states, Mr, Dickey was a pioneer. From the beginning, the 
enterprise has constantly grown. Improvement has been made 
in the method of manufacture and extensions in the diversi- 
ficction of products, but the honorable, straightforward policy 
instituted at the beginning has needed no change and has 
been one of the strongest factors in the developing success 
of the undertaking. The business has expanded to twenty- 
three manufacturing plants in eleven different states, Georgia, 
Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illi¬ 
nois, Utah and California, with one in the city of Mexico. Five 
of the plants are in Missouri, in Jackson, Henry, Bates and 
Morgan counties. The products of the Dickey manufacturing 
plants are sold throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico 
and Central America. The annual wage payments in these 
plants amount to a million and a quarter dollars. 

A most significant fact in connection with Mr. Dickey’s 
record as a manufacturer is to be found in his dealings with 
his employes and their feelings toward him. He is a firm be¬ 
liever in the promotion of the faithful among his own work¬ 
ers and practically all the superintendents of his Missouri 
plants, as well as of his plants in other states, are men who 
have been advanced from humble factory relations, several of 
them from that of water-boy. In the recent primary every 
precinct in which one of his plants was located went all but 
unanimously for Mr. Dickey, the votes against him being few 
and scattering. Certainly he could have no higher or finer 
testimonial than this. 

The same organizing ability which Mr. Dickey displayed in 
developing his manufacturing business to its present exten¬ 
sive proportions, has been shown also in the establishment of 
the Kansas City-Missouri River Navigation Company, a semi¬ 
public enterprise which has elicited the co-operation of forty- 
two hundred Kansas Cityans, to restore freight traffic on the 
river. It was in 1909 that Kansas City made its fourth effort 
to use the river for freighting by organizing the Kansas City- 
Missouri River Navigation Company. During the campaign 
of 1908, Mr. Dickey’s talent for organization was manifest to 
such a degree that the business men of Kansas City called 
upon him to take the position of president of the Navigation 
Company and push the organization to completion, which he 
did. although his heavy shipments from his factory in Kan¬ 
sas City all go by rail to points not reached by the river 
i)oats. The interests of the city, however, he made his own, 


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and to him, probably more than to any other person, is due 
the success achieved in this matter. He showed his own 
personal confidence in the project by becoming a stock¬ 
holder to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and then or¬ 
ganized the business interests of Kansas City into groups and 
classifications and worked out the details of raising the bal¬ 
ance of the capital of one million two hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars. Of this company he is still the president and treasurer. 

From the day of his citizenship, Mr. Dickey has been a 
Republican, because he saw in the principles of that party 
the highest good of his adopted country. He believed in 
protection, though he himself, in the industry in which he 
was largely interested, w'as not a direct beneficiary of pro¬ 
tective laws. He believes in a liberal policy in promotion of 
commerce, in the establishment of an American merchant 
marine, in a stable and honest currency, in the full protection 
of American citizenship and in all the progressive principles 
for which the party has ever stood. Believing thus with all 
the intensity of his sincerely devoted nature, he was ready 
to fight and sacrifice for the success of the cause. In 1900 he 
was chairman of the JacKson County Republican Committee, 
and so efficient and untiring was his service and so compe¬ 
tent and complete was his organization, that the party won, 
that year, its first victory in twenty-seven years. Four years 
later, in 1904, as chairman of the Republican City Committee 
of Kansas City, he conducted, with his wonted energy, a cam¬ 
paign which resulted in the election of a Republican mayor 
and council. Later in the same year he was chairman of 
the Executive Committee of the Republican State Committee 
for Missouri, and in that connection helped to give Theodore 
Roosevelt the electoral vote of the state, which was a most 
unexpected result. In 1908, he was honored with the Repub¬ 
lican State chairmanship and, after the most remarkable cam¬ 
paign the state has ever known, another notable Republican 
victory was registered. William H. Taft was given the 
state’s electoral vote and Herbert S. Hadley was elected the 
first Republican' governor in forty years. During this cam¬ 
paign Mr. Dickey moved to St. Louis to establish more ef¬ 
fective headquarters and the measure of his devotion to the 
cause was indicated by his willingness to separate himself 
for five months from his family and from the large respon¬ 
sibilities of his business to devote his energies, in the upper 
story of a hotel, for many hours each day and night, to the 
organization of a victory out of conditions of apparent de¬ 
spair. And the fine result of that campaign in Missouri was 
due, as all must say, in large part, to his masterly consum¬ 
mation of the necessary details of a superb organization, 
which brought to the polls the full strength of a great cause. 
It is worth while to say that in connection with no campaign 
of which he had charge was there ever any accusation of a 
resort to unfair or illegitimate methods. His processes were 
clean. ♦ 

Through the years of his aggressive activity for the party 
it is noteworthy that he never asked or sought for himself po¬ 
litical preferment. He never offensively dictated to those who 
were placed in power through his efforts. In 1900, he went 
as one of the delegates of Missouri to the Republican National 
convention at Philadelphia and he delighted in that distinc¬ 
tion because it gave him an opportunity to vote for the re¬ 
nomination of President William McKinley, whom he loved* 
and honored. 

Those who knew Senator Mark Hanna in the days of his 
dominance believe that Mr. Dickey has many of that great 
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fianizer, and will likewise demonstrate, in the Senate, his 
splendid capacity for legislative leadership. 

Personally, Mr. Dickey is genial, approachable, thoroughly 
democratic and altogether lovable. He gives the impression 
of a native frankness^ and sincerity and he deals directly and 
without circumlocution, which his nature resents. He has had 
five children and his family life is ideal. His love for the home 
circle is one of his great passions. 

His natural religious affiliation is with Methodism, in the 
early ranks of which his paternal ancestors were prominent, 
but Mrs. Dickey is a Presbyterian and he goes to church with 
her. His sympathy, his contributions and his influence other¬ 
wise have always been given broadly to the furtherance of 
the work of the church. His moral support, moreover, has 
ever been on the side of every good cause, promising the bet¬ 
terment of the community. Mr. Dickey is a member of many 
civic organizations and is vice-president for Missouri of the 
Sons of the. American Revolution. 


Mr. Dickey has always been clean-handed. He has stood 
for the best things in business methods. His processes have 
endured all the tests of public scrutiny. His personality is 
upright. He is sympathetic and generous. The needs and 
interests of his fellow-men have a large place in his mind and 
heart. 

He is a man of wonderful capacity, alert in judgment, quick 
and accurate in responsible decision, skilled in the selection 
(rf men, equally keen in the perception of opportunity and in 
the apprehension of danger, decisive and vigorous in action. 
What these qualities would mean in the service of his country, 
at a time of its possibly critical need, every good citizen will 
be able to judge for himself. 


“But this measure has more serious defects. It creates a 
flock of political jobs, has no provision for the payment of 
losses, gives to the political party in power a club over the bor¬ 
rowers, and is a direct step toward single tax, which you 
farmers of Cass County helped to defeat when it was sub¬ 
mitted. It proposes to take the taxes off mortgages and de¬ 
benture bonds for farmers. When this is done the people 
of the cities and the tenant farmers will demand cheaper 
interest and the taxes must be stricken from their towns, 
and then what will you face? Single tax, and nothing less. 
The taxes taken off personal property must be replaced by in¬ 
creasing taxes on land.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 


“My distinguished opponent is on the staff of Governor 
Major. The definition of a staff is something to lean on, some 
one to advise with. While the governor was using the sev¬ 
eral state institutions and boards for political purposes why 
didn’t Colonel Gardner practice what he is now preaching 
.ind promising. He says if he is elected these things won’t 
happen any more. Col. Gardner says if he is elected Govern¬ 
or he will never run for another office. That reminds me of 
the little verse, “When the devil was sick, the devil a monk 
would be; but when he was well and rid of his spell, the 
devil a monk was he.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 



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F. Britton 




Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 
Lieutenant Governor, 

Roy F. Britton, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant 
Governor, is a native of Ohio. He obtained his education in 
Michigan University, from the law department of which he 
graduated in 1902. In 1903 he was admitted to the bar in Mis¬ 
souri and began the practice of his profession, after having 
devoted some time to the automobile business, in St. Louis- 
He was nominated by the Re])ublicans of St. Louis County 
for Representative in the legislature in 1910 and was elected. 
He made an excellent legislative record, particularly in fur¬ 
therance of the good road- movement and in connection with 
the workmen’s compensation law, in both of which he was 
greatly interested. He had a great deal to do, as a worker 
in the movement, with the passage of a law in 1907 provid¬ 
ing for the regulation of automobiles and the payment of a 
state license fee. This latter law, amended by Mr. Britton 
when he became a member of the legislature in 1911, now 
yields to the state a revenue of $300,000, which is distributed 
to the various counties for road improvement. Mr. Britton is 
now a resident of St. Louis, being a member of the law firm 
of Collins, Barker & Britton. He is an able lawyer, a most 
oarnest advocate of the principles in which he believes, and 
an active and zealous Republican. His personality is clean 
and attractive and the Republicans present a candidate who. 
if called to the governorship, would meet the demands of 
the situation. 


‘‘Col. Gardner is the first candidate I ever saw running 
for office who required an amendment to the State Consti¬ 
tution to be elected.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 



















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Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 

Secretary of State. 

William C, Askin, the Republican candidate for Secretary 
of State, was born in Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri, 
December 14, 1866, He is the son of Capt. Robert M. Askin 
and Clara Jamison Askin. When he was thirteen years of age 
he moved with his parents to Salem, Dent County, Missouri, 
where he received his education in the public schools under 
Prof. W, PI, Lynch. After completing his school work, he 
engaged in the furniture and hardware business with his fa¬ 
ther and learned the tinner’s trade. Later he became a part¬ 
ner in the firm, which came to be known as Askin & Dent, 
He won the confidence of the community by the careful and 
reliable business methods which were the basis of his busi¬ 
ness success. In 1902 he was appointed postmaster of Salem 
and held that office for twelve years. In 1905, when the First 
National Bank of Salem was organized, he was elected vice- 
president and three years ago was made president and be¬ 
came active in its management until his candidacy before the 
Republican primary this year- Mr. Askin had never been an 
aspirant for an elective office, though all his mature life he 
has been active as a Republican worker. For sixteen years 
continuously he was a member of the Dent County Republican 
Committee, of which he is now chairman, and for eight years 
continuously he served on the congressional committee. Mr. 
Askin has an enviable reputation among his neighbors for in¬ 
tegrity, personal uprightness and business efficiency. His suc¬ 
cessful business experience marks him as a high-class man 
for a business job. 




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James li. Mason 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 

Attorney-General. 

James H. Mason is a native Missourian, having been born 
in Greene County, February 19, 1874. He was reared on a 
farm and spent his boyhood days on farms in Greene and 
Dallas counties. At the age of 18 years he became a teacher. 
By means of teaching and work at the general merchandise 
business, he obtained the money to attend the State Univer¬ 
sity at Columbia, in the law department of that institution. 
He was elected City Attorney of Springfield, Mo., and after¬ 
wards prosecuting attorney of Greene County, suceeding a 
ijemocrat each time, and his official services have met the 
approval of his constituents. He is an untiring worker and a 
close student of the law. He is the senior member of the law 
firm of Mason & Page at Springfield, Mo., and has an exten¬ 
sive practice. 

Mr. Mason began his struggle for success on the farm and, 
by close application to his books and his work, he has at¬ 
tained distinction and recognition in his profession. 

He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General in 
1912, when the party was hopelessly divided and went to de¬ 
feat with the rest of the ticket, though he made a very cred¬ 
itable race. 

Mr. Mason has thousands of devoted friends throughout the 
state and in the campaign of 1912 he won many added friends 
by his broad-minded views and .the considerate manner in 
which he treated the judgment of those who might differ with 
him. , 

His candidacy is endorsed by the Bar Association of Greene 
County and other counties, and the Republican County Cen¬ 
tral Committee of Greene County, as well as by many counties 
of the state where he is well known. He is a man of unques¬ 
tioned personal standing among those who know him best, 
as is shown by the large support which his neighbors always 
give him when he is a candidate. 




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Qeorgfe E. Hack man n 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 

State Auditor. 

George E. Hackmann, the Republican candidate for State 
Auditor, was born in Warren County, which is still his home, 
August 10, 1877. He grew up on the farm. His father was a 
prominent citizen and at one time represented his county in 
the legislature where he was an active force. George got his 
literary education in the common schools, and in Central Wes¬ 
leyan College, to which was added later a business course in 
the Bryant-Stratton Commercial College in St. Louis. He took 
up mercantile pursuits as a clerk in a retail store in New Ha¬ 
ven, Mo., and later had a similar position in Warrenton. This 
he resigned to become a traveling salesman for the J. W. 
Scudder Grocery Co. In January, 1902, he was appointed Depu¬ 
ty County Clerk of Warren County, in which position he con¬ 
tinued until elected County Clerk eight years later. After a 
four-year term he was re-elected without opposition either at 
the primaries or at the general election—a remarkable trib¬ 
ute. Mr. Hackmann also served as City Clerk of Warrenton 
from August, 1903, until May, 1916, when he resigned to 
make the race for State Auditor. 

Aside from his official and secretarial duties Mr. Hack¬ 
mann has found time to build up a lucrative insurance bus¬ 
iness, and takes an active and constructive interest in public 
affairs in his home town and county. He is married and has 
one son eight years of age. 

The suggestion that Mr. Hackmann should become a can¬ 
didate for State Auditor originated with his friends at the 
County Clerk's Convention in St. Joseph in 1914. 

.Mr. Hackmann has a gracious and popular personality and 
few men in the state have a greater number of friends. 







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L. D. Thompson 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 

State Treasurer. 

I.. D. Thompson, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, 
was born near Vandalia, in Ralls County, in 1873. He moved 
to Callaway County when he was twelve years of age and has 
since resided there. He received his education in the public 
schools of Calloway County. He was engaged in farming 
until 1897, when he was appointed postmaster of New Bloom¬ 
field by President McKinley and served in that office for sev¬ 
enteen years. For eighteen years he has been engaged in 
the general merchandise business in New Bloomfield. For 
sixteen years he was a member of the Calloway County Re¬ 
publican Committee and for four years nas been its chairman. 
In 1908 he was nominated by the Republicans for represen¬ 
tative of Callaway County and, while he was defeated at the 
election because of the very large adverse majority, he ran 
considerable ahead of his ticket. 


Mr. Thompson is a member of the Christian Church and 
has been a member of the county church board for a num¬ 
ber of years. He has also been honored with election to 
the School Board of his home town, was a member of the 
Road Commission, was secretary and treasurer of the Post¬ 
master's State League in 1913 and was a delegate to the Na¬ 
tional Postmaster’s Convention in 1914 to represent the Mis¬ 
souri postmasters. 

Mr. Thompson is a business man of splendid record for 
probity and conservative sense and his standing among men 
of all parties iir the section of the state where he is best 
known is unquestioned. 





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James M. Johnson 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 
Supreme Judge, Long Term. 

James M. Johnson, the Republican candidate for Supreme 
Judg^e, long term, was born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1862, and 
lived in that city until his election as Judge of the Kansas 
City Court of Appeals. He graduated from the high school 
in St. Joseph. He studied law in the office of Crosby & Rusk 
in that city and was admitted to the bar in January, 1884. He 
became a member of the law firm of Johnson, Rusk & String- 
fellow, and continued that connection until his elevation to 
the bench. His election to the Kansas City Court of Appeals 
was in 1904. This district was normally Democratic by 17,000 
majority, but such was the standing and personal popularity 
with the people of the district that he overcame this large 
adverse condition and was elected as the first Republican 
ever chosen to that bench in its history. His record has vin¬ 
dicated his election. 

His opinions, filed during the twelve years of his service, 
are more frequently quoted outside of this state than those 
of any other judge of the Appellate Court of Missouri. His in¬ 
tellectual activities have not been confined to his judicial 
work, nor to strictly professional lines. He is a member of 
the faculty of the Kansas City School of i.aw, and is in de¬ 
mand as a lecturer and instructor upon subjects of general, 
classical and literary interest. Kg has conducted in Kansas 
City a series of lectures on Shakesperean plays, which have 
won high commendation. He has given frequent lectures on 
Biblical subjects and has treated them with such originality 
and analysis, as to attract wide attention. Since his elec¬ 
tion to the bench, he has made his home in Kansas City. 

He is everywhere recognized as a man of the highest per¬ 
sonal worth. 





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Edward Higbee 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 
Supreme Judge, Short Term, 

Edward Higbee, the Republican candidate for Judge of the 
Supreme Court for the short term, was born in Ashland 
C ounty, Ohio, on January 1, 1847. When he was but two years 
old, his father moved to Johnson County, Ohio, where the boy 
was brought up on the farm. He attended the common schools 
and later took a course at the State University at Iowa City, 
the county seat of his own county. Following his graduation, he 
taught school for some time, until he had completed his law 
studies. He was admitted to the bar at Bloomfield, la., in 1867. 
During that same year, he located at Lancaster to begin the 
practice of his profession. In 1906 he moved to his present 
home at Kirksville, though he is still represented at Lancaster 
by a law firm in which his younger son is a partner. His law 
firm at Kirksville is known as Higbee & Mills. In 1894 Mr. Hig¬ 
bee represented Schuyler County in the legislature. He has 
also held the office of Mayor of Lancaster. 

On September 20th, he was chosen Grand Master of the Ma¬ 
sonic Order in Missouri, and was installed the following day. 

Mr. Higbee is recognized as a very able lawyer and has 
the confidence and respect of the profession throughout the 
State. He is personally a man of clean life and upright 
record, a man to whom men of all parties accord the highest 
measure of personal respect. 


“Mr. Gardner and his running mates promise to give j’ou 
the same sort of a dose you took during the last four years. 
1 should think the people would get tired of taking castor oil 
all of the time.”—Judge Henry Ijamm. 




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I. N. Evrard 



Biographical Sketch of the Republican Candidate for 
State Superintendent of Schools. 

I. N. Evrard, who has been nominated by the Republican 
State Central Committee for the office of State Superin¬ 
tendent of Schools to fill the vacancy caused by the death 
of State Superintendent Gass, was born in Franklin County, 
Missouri, in 1870. At the age of thirteen he was left an 
orphan and largely placed upon his own resources. He at¬ 
tended high school at Salem and later graduated from Ozark 
College at Greenfield, Missouri, in 1892. 

He took his Master’s Degree at Missouri Valley College, 
of which he is now Dean, a few years later. He taught 
for three j^ears in the country schools of Crawford and 
Dade County. For four years he was principal of the high 
school at Greenfield, which position he resigned to become 
principal of the public schools at Richland. After one year 
in this position he returned to Greenfield as Superintend¬ 
ent of the Schools and held that place for three years. He 
was then made Professor of English in Missouri Valley 
College and, after eight years in that place, become a teacher 
in the Springfield Normal School until his appointment in 
1911 as State Inspector of Rural Schools under State Super¬ 
intendent Evans. He was made Dean of the Missouri Valley 
College later in the same year and has continued in that 
position until the present time. He spent the summer of 
1916 teaching in the State Normal school at Maryville. 

For ten years he has been in urgent demand for ad¬ 
dresses at educational conventions and school commence¬ 
ments. He is not only a finished scholar, but he is recognized 
throughout Missouri as a highly competent educator, ac- 
(juainted through experience with every branch and depart¬ 
ment of the service. He is a man of forceful personality, 
of high personal character and is honored by every man 
who knows him. 







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National 

Platform of the Republican Party 


In 1S61 the Uepul>lican party .stood for the Union. As it 
stood for the Union of States, it now stands for a united people, 
true to American ideals, loyal to American traditions, knowing' 
no allegience except to the Constitution, to the Covernment 
.ind to the flag of tire United States. 

We believe in Airrericair policies at home and alrroad. 

IM’oteetioii of Aiiierioiiii Kiglits. 

AV'e declare that we believe in and will enforce the pro¬ 
tection of every American citizen in all the rights secured to 
him by the Constitution, by treaties and the law of nations, at 
home and abroad, by land and sea. These rights, which in 
violation of the specific promise of their party irrade at Balti¬ 
more in 1912, the Democratic Presideirt arrd the Democratic 
Congress have failed to defend, we will untliirchingly nrairrtairr. 

Foreign Relntioii.s. 

We desire peace, the peace of justice arrd right, and believe 
iir maiirtaining’ a struct and hoirest neutrality betweeir the 
belligei'eirts irr the great war in Europe. We irrust perforirr all 
our duties arrd insist upon all our rights as ireutrals, without 
fear and without favor-. We believe that peace and neutrality, 
as well as the dignity and irrflvrerrce of the United States, 
cannot be preserved by shifty expedients, by phrasemakirrg, by 
perfor-rrrances in language, or by attitudes ever changirrg in 
an effort to secure groups of voter's. The preserrt Administra¬ 
tion has destroyed our' influence abroad and humiliated us in 
our' own e.\es. The Republican party believes that a Hr'tn, con¬ 
sistent, ana courageous foreign policy, always rnaintairred by 
Republican presidents in accordance with American tradi¬ 
tions, is the best, as it is the only true way, to preserve our 
peace and restore us to our r'ightful place among the rrations. 

We believe in tire pacific settlement of international dis¬ 
putes and favor the establishment of a world court for that 
inirpose. 

We deeply synrpathize with the fifteen million people of 
Mexico who for three years have seen their country devastated, 
their homes destroved, their fellow citizens murdered and 
their women outrag'd, by armed bands of desperadoes led by 
self-seeking, conscienceless agitators who when temporai'ily 
successful in any locality have neither sought nor been able to 
restore order or establish and maintain peace. 

We express our liorror and indignation at the outi'ages 
which have been and are being perpeti'ated by these bandits upon 
American men and women who were or are in Mexico by invi¬ 
tation of the laws and of the government of that country and 
whose rights to security of person and property are guaran¬ 
teed by solemn treaty obligations. We denounce the inde¬ 
fensible methods of interference employed by this Administra¬ 
tion in the internal affairs of Mexico and refer with shame to 
its failure to discharge the duty of this country as next friend 
to Mexico, its duty to other i)owers who have relied upon us 
as such friend, and its duty to our citizens in Mexico, in per- 
mittin.g the continuance of such conditions, first by failure to 
act promptly and firmly, and second, by lending its influence 
to the continuation of such conditions through recognition 
of one of the factions responsible for these outrages. 

We pledge our aid in restoring order and maintaining 
peace in Mexico. We promise to our citizens on and near our 
border, and to those in Mexico, wherever they may be found, 
adequate and absolute protection in their lives, libertv and 
property. 

.M<»nroe Doctrine. 

We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe Docti'ine, and 
declare its maintenance to be a policy of this country essential 
to its present and future peace and safety and to the achieve¬ 
ment of its manifest destiny. 

I.atin America. 

We favor' the continuance of Republican irolicies which 
will result in drawing more and more closely the commercial, 
financial and social r-elations between this country and the 
covrntries of Latin America. 



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l*liiliii|)ines. 

We renew our allegiance to the Philippine policy inaugu¬ 
rated by McKinley, approved by Congress and consistently cai’- 
ried out by Roosevelt and Taft. Even in this short time it has 
enormously improved the material and social conditions of the 
Islands, given the Philippine people a constantly increasing 
participation in their Government and if persisted in, will 
bring still greater benefits in the future. 

We accepted the responsibility of the Islands as a duty to 
civilization and the Filipino people. To leave with our task 
half done, would break our pledges, injure our prestige among 
Nations, and imperil what has already been accomplished. 

We condemn the Democratic administration for its attempt 
to abandon the Philippines, which was i)revented only by the 
vigorous opposition of Rei)ublican members of Congress, aided 
by a few pari otic Democrats. 

Itiglit.s of Eximfriiition. 

• 

We reiterate the uniiualified approval of the action taken 
in December, 1911, by the President and Congress to secure 
with Russia, as with other countries, a treaty that will recog¬ 
nize the absolute right of expatriation and prevent all discrim¬ 
ination of whatever kind between American citizens whether 
native born or alien, and regardless of race, religion or previ¬ 
ous political allegiance. We renew the pledge to observe this 
principle and to maintain the right of asylum, which is neither 
to be sin rendered nor restricted, and we unite in the cherished 
hope that the war which is now desolating the world may 
speedily end, with a complete and lasting restoration of 
brotherhood among the nations of the earth and the assurance 
of full e((ual rights, civil and religious, to all men in every 
land. 

ProteetMui of the Country. 

In order ta maintain our peace and make certain the 
security of our peo])le within our own bordeis the country 
must have not only adequate but thorough and complete 
national defenses ready for any emergency. We must have a 
sufficient and effective Regular Army, and a provision for 
ample reserves, already drilled and disciplined, who can be 
called at once to the colors when the hour of danger comes. 

We must have a Navy so strong and so well proportioned 
and equipped, so thoroughly ready and prepared, that no enemy 
can gain command of the sea and effect a landing in force on 
either our Western or our Eastern coast. To secure these 
results we must have a coherent and continuous policy of 
national defense, which even in these perilous days the Demo¬ 
cratic party has utterly failed to develop, but which we prom¬ 
ise to give to the counti-y. 


Tariff. 

The Republican party stands now, as always, in the fuliest 
sense for the policy of tariff protection to American industries 
and American labor and does not regard an anti-dumping pro¬ 
vision as an adequate substitute. 

Such protection should be reasonable in amount but suffi¬ 
cient to protect adequately American industries and American 
labor and so adjusted as to prevent undue exactions by mono)»- 
olies or trusts. It should, moreover, give special attention to 
securing the industi'ial independence of the United States as 
in the case of dyestuffs. 

Through wise tariff and industrial legislation our indus¬ 
tries can be so organized that they will become not only a 
commercial bulwark but a powerful aid to national defense. 

The Underwood tariff act is a complete failure in every 
respect. Under its administration, imports have enormously 
increased in spite of the fact that intercourse with foreign 
countries has been largely cut off by reas<jn of the wai, while 
the revenues of which we stand in such dire need have been 
greatly I’educed. 

Under the normal conditions which pi-evailed prior to the 
war it was clearly demonstrated that this Act deprived the 
American producer and the American wage--earner of that pio- 
tection which enabled them to meet their toreign conipetitois, 
and but for the adventitious conditions created by the war, 
would long since have paralyzed all forms of American indus¬ 
try and deprived Amei'ican labor of its just reward. 


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It has not in the least 'degree reduced the cost of living, 
which has constantly advanced from the date of its enactment. 
The welfare of our people demands its repeal and the substitu¬ 
tion of a measure which in peace as well as in war will pro- 
<iuce ample revenue and give reasonable protection to all foims 
of American production in mine, forest, field and factor.v. 

AVe favor the creation of a tariff commission with com- 
)>lete power to gather and compile information for the use of 
Congress in all matters relating to the tariff. 

The Republican party has long believed in the rigid super¬ 
vision and strict regulation of the transportation and of the 
great corporations of the country. It has put its creed into its 
deeds, and all really effective laws regulating the railroads 
and the great industrial corporations are the work of Republi¬ 
can Congresses and Presidents. For this policy of regulation 
and supervision the Democrats, in a stumbling and piecemeal 
way, are undertaking to involve the Government in business 
which should be left within the sphere of private enterprise 
and in direct competition with its own citizens, a policy which 
is sure to lesult in waste, great expense to the tax payer and 
in an inferior product. 

The Republican party firmly believes that all who violate 
the laws in regulation of business, should be individually 
l)unished. But prosecution is very different from persecution, 
and business success, no matter how honestly attained, is ap¬ 
parently regarded by the Democratic party as in itself a crime. 
Such doctrines and beliefs choke enterprise and stifie prosper¬ 
ity. The Republican party believes in encouraging American 
business, as it believes in and will seek to advance all Ameri¬ 
can interests. 

Rural Cro«lit.s. 

We favor an effective system of Rural Credits as opposed 
to the ineffective law proposed bj’ the present Democratic Ad¬ 
ministration. 

Rural Free Delivery. 

We favor the extension of the Rural Free Delivery system 
and condemn the Democratic administration for curtailing and 
crippling it. 

Mereliaut Mjirliie. 

In view of the policies adopted by all the maritime natiojis 
to encourage their shipping interests, and in order to enable 
us to compete with them for the ocean-carrying trade, we favor 
the payment to shii)s engaged in the foreign ti’ade of liberal 
compensation for services actually rendered in carrying the 
mails, and such further legislation as will build up an adequate 
American Merchant Marine and give us ships which may be 
i-equisitioned by the Government in time of national emergency. 

We are utteily opposed to the Government ownership of 
vessels as proposed by the Democratic party, because Govern¬ 
ment-owned ships, while effectively preventing the develop¬ 
ment of the American Merchant Marine by private capital, 
will be entirelj' unable to provide for the vast volume* of 
American freights and will leave us more helpless than ever 
in ‘the hard grip of foreign syndicates. 

Railroads. 

Interstate and intrastate transportation have become so 
interwoven that the attempt to apply two and often several 
sets of laws to its regulation has produced conflicts of author¬ 
ity, embarrassment in operation and inconvenience and ex- 
j)ense to the public. 

The entire transportation system of the country has be¬ 
come essentially national. We therefore, favor such action 
by legislation or if necessary, through an amendment to the 
Gonstitution of the United States as will result in ])lacing it 
under complete Federal control. 

Foonomy and a ]Vati<uial Budget. 

The increasing cost of the national government and the 
need for the greatest economy of its resources in order to 
meet the growing' demands of the people for government serv- 
ic call for the severest condemnation of the wasteful appro- 
priations of this Democratic administration, of its shameless 
raids on the treasury, and of its opposition to and rejection 
of President Taft’s oft repeated proposals and earnest efforts 
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a simple businesslike budget system to which we pledge our 
support and wdiich we hold to be neccessary to effect any real 
reform in the administration of national finances. 

Coii.servatioii. 

We believe in a careful husbandry of all the natural re¬ 
sources of the nation—a husbandry which means development 
without waste; use without abuse. 

Civil Service lleform. 

The Civil Service Law has always been sustained by the 
Republican i)aity, and we renew our repeated declarations 
that it shall be thoi’oughly and honestly enforced and extended 
wherever practicable. The Democratic party has created since 
March 4, 1918, thirty thousand offices outside of the Civil Serv¬ 
ice law at an annual cost of forty-four million dollars to the 
tax payers of the country. 

We condemn the gross abuse and misuse of the law by tl\e 
])resent Democratic administration and pledge ourselves to a 
reorganization of this service along lines of efficiency and 
economy. 

'I'erritorial Oflieijils. 

Reaffiming the attitude long maintained by the Rejiublican 
party, we hold that officials appointed to administer tlie gov¬ 
ernment of any territory should be bona fide residents of the 
territory in which the duties are to be performed. 

liRbor Liiw.s. 

We pledge the Republican pai’ty to the faithful enforce¬ 
ment of all Federal laws passed for the protection of labor. 
We favor vocational education; the enactment and rigid en¬ 
forcement of a Federal child labor law; the enactment of a 
generous and comprehensive workmen’s compensation law, 
within the commerce power of Congress, and an accident com¬ 
pensation law covering- all Government employes. \v e favor 
the collection and collation, under the direction of the Depart¬ 
ment of Labor, of complete data relating to industrial hazards 
for the information of Congress, to the end that such legisla¬ 
tion may be adopted as may be calculated to secure the safety, 
conservation and protection of labor from the dangers incident 
to industry and trans])ortation. 

Woman Suffrage. 

The Republican party reaffirming its faith in government 
of the people, by tiie people, for the people, as a measure oi 
.iustice to one-half the adult people of the country favors the 
extension of the suffrage to women, but recognizes the right 
of each state to settle this question for itself. 

Such are our principles, such are our ’’purposes and poli¬ 
cies.” We close as we began. The times are dangerous 
and the future is fraught with perils. The great issues of the 
day have been confused by words and phrases. The American 
spirit, which made the country and saved the Union, has been 
forgotten by those charged with the responsibility of power. 
We appeal to all Americans, whether naturalized or native- 
born, to prove to the world that we are Americans in thought 
and in deed, with one loyalty, one hope, one aspiration. AVe 
call on all Americans to be true to the spirit of America, to 
ihe great traditions of their common countr.v, and above all 
things, to keep the faitii. 


The Gardner bill conflicts with the Constitution of Missouri 
and cannot be put into operation unless the Constitution is 
changed. 


The Gardner bill provides for exemption from taxation of 
more than $40,000,000.00 of personal property and hence to 
raise the necesary revenue for the State, the tax on land must 
be increased. 


If the farmer secures cheaper money under the Gardner 
land bank bill, he will have to face an increased land tax as a 
result. 





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State Republican Platform 


State Declaration of the Party Faith, Adopted August 23, 1916. 


The Republican party of Missouri, speaking through a coji- 
vention of its representatives chosen as the law directs, makes 
the following declaration of its principles: 

Kiulorsemeiit of Nationul Platform and Candidates. 

We reaffirm the Republican National Platform in every par¬ 
ticular, as adopted at the Chicago Convention, and pledge our 
loyal support to secure the election of The Honorable Charles 
Evans Hughes and the Honorable Charles Warren Fairbanks, 
our candidates for President and Vice-President, respectively. 

l.o.val American Citixen.sliip. 

We stand for an American citizenship that shall be uncondi¬ 
tionally loyal to those principles of individual liberty and repre¬ 
sentative government upon which our fathers founded this great 
Republic, and which guarantee to every citizen the protection 
of his life, his liberty, and the enjoyment of the fruits of his 
legitimate industry, at home and abroad. 

Protection of American Kiglit.s 

We believe in the protection of American labor, in the guar¬ 
anty of the full rights and privileges of American citizenship tr» 
every citizen, and the guaranty of equal opportunity to all, and 
the equality of all men before the law. 

Protection of Citizen,s at Home and .Vbroad 

We believe in the faithful fulfillment of our national obliga¬ 
tions and in maintaining a fixed policy of good faith and justice 
to all nations, while demanding and securing, from other na¬ 
tions, the same respect for our rights and the same protection 
to our citizens, dwelling in their territory, that our laws secure 
to their citizens within our borders; and we insist upon the 
observance, by all nations with whom we have intercourse, of 
the fundamental, just and recognized piinciples of international 
law. 

IVjieefiil Sefflemeiit of Iiiteruati<»iiiil HiNiiiifes. 

We believe in international peace and friendship, and we 
would indorse any practical plan to prevent the resort to war 
for the settlement of disputes between nations. 

Aationnl Preparednes.s 

We believe in adequate and timely national preparedness— 
economic, industrial, financial, military and naval—as the surest 
protection against war and as the only salvation of our counti v 
in case of war. 

Protective Tarilf 

We favor a tarilf law, framed on Republican principles, so 
that it shall adequately protect American labor and prevent the 
destruction of American industries, which is sure to follow the 
termination of the i>resent war in Europe if the Underwood 
Tariff Law, enacted by the Democratic party, shall remain in 
force. That law' should be repealed as part of a rational pro¬ 
gram of National Preparedness. 

The notorious failure of this lawq even as a revenue measure, 
has compelled the Democratic party to resort to the odiou.s 
stamp tax, denominated a “War Tax,” in time of peace. 

A Firm niul Dignified Foreign Policy 

We denounce the vacillating and humiliating policy that has 
been pursued by the present National Democratic administra¬ 
tion in its intercourse with foreign nations, a policy which has 
everywhere jeopardized and surrendered American rights de¬ 
stroyed American prestige, and subjected our country to hatred 
and contempt; and we particularly denounce the unjust and 
hypocritical policy of the present Democratic administration in 
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Proteotioii of American Citizen.s in Mexico 

When the present Democratic president came into power 
three years ag^o, he immediately began a policy of intervention 
and intermeddling in the internal affairs of the Mexican re¬ 
public, coupled with a contemptuous disregard and abandonment 
of the rights and interests of American citizens domiciled in 
Mexico or engaged in commerce and industry therein, an inter¬ 
vention which helped to destroy every vestige of responsible 
government there and reduce that country to anarchy and ruin, 
resulting in the loss of hundreds of American lives and the 
destruction of millions of dollars of American property. The 
despairing appeals of our citizens to their own government 
against open and deliberate insult, robbery, oppression, outrage 
and murder fell upon deaf ears or were rejected as unworthy 
of consideration by an administration whose professions of de¬ 
votion to the service of humanity did not include or recognize 
its plain constitutional duties or obligations to its own citizens. 

The State Government Under the Domination of an Incompetent 

Democratic Machine 

We point with pride to the signally able and efficient man¬ 
agement of the affairs of this state which distinguished the 
administration of the Honorable Herbert S. Hadley as forming 
a brilliant chapter in the political history of Missouri. 

We declare that our state government is now in the hands of 
a selfish political machine who care nothing for the wishes or 
opinions of the people of this state, or of the rank and file of 
the party to which they belong, and who serve nobody but them¬ 
selves. They have devoted their whole thought and effort for 
years to perpetuating their hold upon power and to creating 
new offices and commissions with fat salaries for their families 
and retainers, payable out of the state treasury or supported 
by official fees imposed upon honest industry and business, or 
wrung from the general public, while at the same time the le¬ 
gitimate charges of government and of public education and 
state wardship are not met, and bankruptcy threatens the finan¬ 
cial administration of the fifth state in the Union in population 
and wealth of natural resources. These conditions have become 
intolerable. The present Democratic administration is thor¬ 
oughly discredited and a change is imperatively demanded; nor 
does the ticket of the Democratic party, recently nominated, 
offer any promise of relief to the voters of the state. 

The Only Relief Offered Is Through the Republican Party 

The Republican party has nominated a ticket which com¬ 
mands the support of all citizens interested in good government 
and it pledges all these candidates to an honest, efficient and 
wise administration of the affairs of this state that will protect 
and promote honest industry and encourage the development of 
the natural resources of the state, without imposing unequal 
burdens upon any class of citizens, while at the same time 
rigidly preventing monopoly and special privilege and insuring 
equal opportunity to all who are engaged in legitimate occupa¬ 
tions, an administration that will restore the state of Missouri 
to the position of influence and leadership in this great nation 
to which by wealth and worth of citizenship, it is entitled. 

The Appalling Record of Democratic Extravagance 

Four years ago the Missouri Republican State Platform de¬ 
clared : 

“This State Administration has been so economically con¬ 
ducted as to convert a deficit of more than a million dollars at 
the beginning of the administration, into a surplus now in the 
state treasury.” 

The Democratic state platform of 1912 admitted this surplus 
and declared; 

“The surplus now in the treasury and the splendid financial 
condition of the state of Missouri are due to the wise and ef¬ 
ficient management of Democratic officers, and are the result of 
laws enacted by Democratic legislatures.’’ 

With the Democratic administration in power, the financial 
condition of the state is now pitiable. Its plight is not due to 
loss of revenue. The receipts from general and special taxation 
surpass all records. The state institutions are crippled. In spite 
of the secrecy as to financial conditions, anomalous in a free 
governm'ent. It is known that many of the state institutions 
scantily subsist on borrowed money or on funds doled out by the 
governor, acting under a belated and unconstitutional “Economy 
Order” of his own devising. The last General Assembly over¬ 
appropriated the estimated revehue five million five hundred 


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thousand dollars. The governor approved all but three million 
of this. On January 26, 1916, after the first half of the bi-en- 
nium had elapsed, he issued his “Economy Order,’’ seeking to 
do two years’ retrenching in one. A month prior to this “Econ¬ 
omy Order,” the supreme court cf the state ordered the return 
of $334,189.31, which had, on July 3, 1915, been wrongfully 
diverted from the public school fund to the general revenue fund 
under a new and fanciful interpretation of the language of an 
appropriation act set forth in a purported opinion by the attor¬ 
ney general, which he repudiated before the test suit was called 
for trial. The present Democratic administration added $3,790,- 
734.94 to the cost of government in its first two years, over the 
preceding two years of the Hadley administration. The appro¬ 
priations for salaries alone for 1915 and 1916, exceed those for 
1911 and 1912 by $452,262.00. The last two general assemblies 
made unnecessary increases of state expenditures. Such ex¬ 
travagance and incompetency are responsible for the humiliat¬ 
ing condition of our state finances. 

Inefficiency 

We condemn the present administration for the iniquitous 
conduct of the state institutions. Our charitable and penal in¬ 
stitutions, and the police forces in some of our cities, have been 
prostituted to the political fortunes of the Democratic machine. 
Wanton waste, extravagance, nepotism and inefficiency have 
been the rule throughout the state. We pledge our candidates 
to the reform of such conditions, to the establishment of a 
general board of control of our eleemosynary institutions, to 
the adoption of the merit system in the public service of the 
state, and to the establishment of economy and efficiency in the 
state government, so that it shall be administered in the inter¬ 
ests of the whole people, rather than any political party. 

Financial Juggling 

We deplore the inefficient management and disgraceful 
juggling of the public funds, as has been the custom of Demo¬ 
cratic administration, both past and present; the diverting and 
shifting of revenue from one fund to another for the purposes 
of deluding the taxpayers as to the true conditions of the 
finances of the state, and to the end that this evil may be cor¬ 
rected, we advocate the enactment of such laws as will give 
greater publicity to the true and actual financial conditions of 
our state. 

Budget System 

We declare in favor of the adoption of the budget system 
under which anticipated revenue may be computed, the neces¬ 
sary amount required for all state expenditures ascertained, and 
appropriations kept within the limits of available revenue; but 
we also declare that the absence of a budget system does not 
excuse the Democratic party for the present deplorable condi¬ 
tion of the state’s finances, resulting from Democratic misman¬ 
agement. 

Bedistricting 

We favor an honest and fair redistricting of the state into 
congressional, senatorial, legislative and judicial districts, in 
accordance with the plain mandates of the state and federal 
laws to the end that representative government may no longer 
be outraged in Missouri, and we denounce the unfair and un- 
American division into which, for partisan purposes, the Demo¬ 
cratic party has divided this state. 

Workmen’.s Compensation 

We pledge ourselves to the immediate enactment of a just 
and practicable Workmen’s Compensation law. Thirty-two 
states of the Union have enacted such laws within the past six 
years, while Missouri, under Democratic rule and in violation of 
platform pledges has adhered to obsolete and unfair laws. We 
also favor the enactment of laws designed to prevent industrial 
accidents. 

Good Roads 

We congratulate the people on the progress made in highway 
improvement in some sections of. the state, through the aid of 
voluntary organizations and by means of local efforts, and 
we call attention to the fact that adequate and effectual laws 
for state aid and encouragement of highway construction and 
maintenance have not been provided by the Democratic party. 
We favor a general revision of our road laws, so that there may 
be devised a simple and complete system of road and bridge 
construction and maintenance, which will be adapted to the 
requirements and means of the various counties of the state. 

We pledge ourselves to the enactment of laws necessary to 
secure the benefit of aid to road building by the federal govern¬ 
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state aid, to the end that roads of all classes throug-hout the 
state, be properly improved and maintained. We recognize the 
necessity of developing the great arteries of travel throughout 
the state, and we also realize the great importance of improving 
to a proper standard, market roads and community thorough¬ 
fares of all kinds. 

River Improvement 

Our senator and congressmen will advance the development 
by the federal government of our rivers for all transportation 
purposes. 

(jJeological Survey 

such a geological survey as will announce to the 
world the location and e.xtent of Missouri’s vast resources. 

Loeal Improvement.s 

We favor the enactment of amendments to the present law 
whereby the cost of public improvements in our large cities 
may be brought within the bounds of reason and the cost of 
similar work in other states. We believe a modification of the 
plan whereby certain cities have obtained their park systems, 
if applied to all street improvement proceedings, would enable 
such work to be done at a saving of a large per cent of the 
present cost of such work. 


Pure Seed 

We favor the speedy enactment of a pure seed law to protect 
our farmers against impure and infertile seed. 

Reformation of Court Procedure 

We believe that the statutes governing court procedure in 
this state, in both civil and criminal cases, should be thoroughly 
revised and amended to the end that the administration of jus¬ 
tice be made simpler, more expeditious and less expensive, and 
we commend the efforts of the Missouri Bar association now 
being made in this behalf. 


Home Rule 

We favor home rule for the large cities of Missouri, both 
because it is a fundamental American right and because the 
present system may be and has been used for factional and par¬ 
tisan purposes to thwart the will of the voters elsewhere in the 
state. We condemn the hypocrisy of the Democrats in plotting 
to destroy home rule after unexpected developments showed 
that it was not to their partisan advantage. We believe that 
the factional scandals that are disgracing Missouri are largely 
due to gubernatorial control of the police and excise matters of 
the large cities. 

Rural Credits 

We favor a fair, practicable and effective system of rural 
credits as opposed to the crude, ineffective and unwise scheme 
known as the Gardner Land Bank Plan. 

Pen.sions For Blind 

We favor a constitutional amendment for the pensioning of 
the needy blind. 


Penitentiary 

We are opposed to the partisan political and inefficient man¬ 
agement of the state penitentiary. We stand for the humane 
treatment of convicts, the separation of hardened criminals from 
first offenders, the segregation of those afflicted with commun¬ 
icable diseases, the establishment of a hospital for the criminal 
insane, the employment of the able bodied, as far as possible, 
in the open air, and not in competition with free labor, the actual 
abolition of the contract system in the penitentiary, and the 
operation of the penitentiary in a modern, honest, business-like 
manner. 

We favor the prompt establishment of an intermediate re¬ 
formatory for first offenders, and condemn the Democratic state 
officials for completely ignoring the unanimous mandate of the 
last general assembly providing for such an institution by the 
appropriation of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, 
which sum the state officials used for other purposes. 

Election Law.s 

The primary and general election laws of this state should 
be thoroughly revised, as the laws provided by the Democratic 
party and now in force, both for the nomination of candidates 
for office of the persons nominated, are unsatisfactory. 


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Ptolice Intimidation of Voters 

We denounce the practice of the Democratic state rnachine in 
employing the police forces of some of the large cities of the 
state to corrupt and control the elections and subvert the lib¬ 
erties of the citizens, by colonizing the criminal classes of said 
cities for political purposes and by arresting, terrorizing and in¬ 
timidating honest voters on election daj'. This practice under¬ 
mines the very foundation of free government and should re¬ 
ceive overwhelming condemnation at the polls by all good citi¬ 
zens of this state. 

We point with pride to the faithful ‘and zealous manner in 
which the Republican party has, on all occasions, protected, 
guarded and upheld the right of franchise of every qualified 
voter of this state, and guaranteed to every voter the right to 
cast his ballot and to have that ballot counted as cast. We 
promise the voters of the state of Missouri that the Republican 
party, if put in power, will in the future maintain this high 
degree of fairness and efficiency. 

Health Board.s 

The party stands for adequate financial support of health 
boards and health officers of the state, counties and cities. It 
stands for the maintenance of county tuberculosis hospitals and 
public tuberculosis nurse service, financially aided by the state 
and nation. 

Dairy Laws 

We favor the revision of the dairy laws of the state so that 
they will meet the present needs of modern dairying. 

New’ Constitution 

We favor the submission by the next general assembly to the 
voters of Missouri of the question of a new constitution. 

AVe declare in this connection that a new constitution should 
be framed as a non-partisan instrument, and therefore we rec¬ 
ommend that the submission be made in a form to provide for 
an equitable and just representation of all political parties in 
framing said instrument. 

Conclusion 

Upon the foregoing declaration of principles we confidently 
appeal to the voters of this state. 


“The bill appropriates $1,000,000 of your money to start 
this bank. But where is this money? It is not in the State 
treasury, the Democratic officials have busted the treasury 
completely; there is not a dollar in it to furnish capital for 
Mr. Gardner’s bank. So hard up is the State and so empty 
the public till that the boards of management of State 
eleemosynary institutions have been forced to borrow money 
to operate on. 

“The university, the State normal schools, the Missouri 
penitentiary and nearly all of the State institutions are run¬ 
ning upon borrowed money, which will have to be met with 
large deficiency appropriation. 

“So scarce is public funds that Democratic officials in 
1915 took $334,189 of the little children’s school money with 
which to pay salaries and other pressing State expenses. 
Public sentiment ran so high when this was discovered 
that a mandamus suit was brought and the Supreme Court 
told the officials to put the money back into the children’s 
fund. 

“This indicates the deplorable condition of the public 
treasury and at the end of this biennial period, the State wull 
be in the hole not less than $2,500,000.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 



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State Democratic Platform 


State Affirmation of Democratic Position, Adopted August 

22, 1916. 


The Democratic party of Missouri, in convention assembled, 
congratulates the State and nation that at this tragic period of 
the world’s history we have at the head of the Government a 
President who has met all international complications in a 
spirit of dignity, firmness and fairness which has compelled 
the recognition of our rights as a great neutral power and at 
the same time retained the respect and friendship of all the 
world. 

The nation’s honor and the nation’s peace have been pre¬ 
served by Woodrow Wilson. 

We reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of Democracy 
and ratify and affirm the platform of our National Convention. 

Organized Dobby Elxposed 

We challenge attention to the great record of the Demo¬ 
cratic Congress. It exposed the organized lobby which had for 
years infested the nation’s capital. That lobby was headed by 
the hired agents of an organization misnamed “The National 
Manufacturers’ Association.’’ It had for years been instrumental 
in preventing all legislation calculated to ameliorate the con¬ 
ditions of labor. It habitually sent its hired employes into 
various congressional districts to defeat Congressmen who had 
sought to pass remedial legislation. It regularly spent vast 
sums of money in endeavoring to promote the political interests 
of its servants in Congress. It spied upon committees and cor¬ 
rupted subordinate governmental employes. The Democratic 
party drove it from the capital and compelled its dissolution. 

The Democratic party, always mindful of the welfare of the 
farmer, and recognizing that he has been the victim of unjust 
interest exactions by farm loan companies, has, by enlarging 
the powers of national banks, created an immediate competitive 
market for farm mortgages and cattle paper. 

Review of Rural Aids 

It is now organizing a great system of land banks which will 
enable farmers to proclure long-time loans at from 4 to per 
cent interest, without the payment of commission charges, and 
which makes the borrower a participant in the profits of the 
land bank through which he negotiates his loans; this national 
system will co-operate with the State rural credit system in 
the same manner as State banks do with national banks. 

It placed agricultural implements and many other articles es¬ 
pecially used by farmers upon the free list. 

It increased the appropriation for the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment by 50 per cent, and has extended the powers of that great 
department so as to work incalculable advantages to the agri¬ 
cultural class. 

It appropriated .$4,500,000 to promptly exterminate the foot 
and mouth disease. 

It created a division of markets and rural organizations to 
study and disseminate information of special value to the 
farmers. 

It created a live stock market and a live stock news service. 

It passed the grain-standard act, which insures uniformity 
in grain grades. 

Started Road System 

It passed the warehouse bill, which facilitates the storage of 
grain by the farmers, and the procurement of money on ware¬ 
house receipts. 




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It passed the agricultural-extension act, which will place two 
expert farm demonstrators in each county of the United States, 
and backed it by an appropriation of $8,600,000. 

It took the initial step toward the promotion of a great sys¬ 
tem of national good roads by appropriating $80,000,000 to be 
expended in co-operation with the States, thus insuring the 
expenditure of $160,000,000 and the ultimate creation of a gen¬ 
eral good-roads system, which will benefit every farmer in the 
United States. 

The Republican party fastened upon the country an unsound 
banking and currency system, which concentrated the financial 
power in New York, and which has at frequently recurring in¬ 
tervals involved the country in panics. 

The Democratic party abolished panics by establishing a 
sound currency and banking system; it transferred the seat of 
financial authority from Wall street to Government control in 
Washington. This great system has withstood the strain of a 
world war, and has made possible that prosperity which the 
country now enjoys. 


Labor Legi.slation 

We call special attention to legislation for the relief of the 
wrongs suffered by labor. For over 30 years labor, without 
avail, knocked at the door of Repulbican Congresses, praying for 
relief against unjust laws and conditions. Their requests were 
not only disregarded, but often contemptuously rejected. 

The Democratic party abolished Government by injunction. 

It exempted labor and farm organizations from the terms 
of the Sherman anti-trust act and gave them statutory recogni¬ 
tion. 

It guaranteed trial by jury and the right to bail and appeal 
in contempt cases. 

By the passage of the seaman’s law, it abolished involuntary 
servitude in the merchant marine. 

It created a Board of Railway Mediation and Arbitration, 
which has settled every railroad dispute up to the present time. 

It enacted an eight-hour law for the protection of women 
and child workers of the District of Columbia. 

It extended the eight-hour law to cover employes in the 
Alaska coal fields, and those engaged in the construction of the 
Alaska Railroad. 

It provided for industrial education. 


Investigated M£iie.s 

It abolished the Taylor stop-watch speeding-up methods the 
Republicans had established in the United States navy yards 
and gun factories. 

It provided for the construction of battleships in Govern¬ 
ment navy yards. 

It investigated and exposed the intolerable labor conditions 
of West Virginian and Michigan mines. 

It enacted the compensation law for Post-Office employes 
injured in the service. 

It has just passed the workingmen’s compensation law, ap¬ 
plicable to all Government employes. 

It established a children’s bureau to study the condition of 
child life and the origin and prevention of child disease. 

It prohibited the shipment of factory products of child labor 
in interstate commerce. 

It abolished many other abuses against which labor justlv 
complained. 


Pni'.se for Seiiator.s 

Missouri has always’occupied a proud and foremost position 
in the Senate of the United States. In the early days of the 
Republic, Benton was admittedly the peer of Clay, Calhoun and 
Webster, and later came Blair, Schurz, Vest and Cockrell. Our 
present Senators, V' illiam J. Stone and James A. Reed measure 
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As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator 
Stone has been the adviser and the support of the President, 
and second only to him as a force for the preservation of the 
dignity and peace of the nation. 

In his one term of service, Senator James A. Reed has placed 
himself in the front rank of the Senate. In the framing of the 
Federal banking bill, his work was that of a constructive states¬ 
man, and many of the most salutary provisions of that law are 
due to his foresight and wisdom. The committee, of which 
he was the leading'spirit, exposed and drove from Washington 
the corrupt lobby. His work in both these great matters was 
such as to bring from President Wilson words of praise and 
thanks. In the halls of the Senate, the voice of Senator Reed 
is always raised in behalf of the principles of Democracy. He 
is recognized as the ablest debater in the great forum of the 
Senate. His return to the Senate is a national need. 

The Missouri congressional delegation is one of the ablest at 
Washington. In all important legislation it has taken a leading 
part. The splendid personnel of our nominees is a guaranty 
that the State will continue to be represented by true and faith¬ 
ful exponents of the rights of the people. 

Tribute to Clark 

Missouri is proud of Speaker Champ Clark. The foremost 
contender for the presidential nomination in 1912, he accepted 
his defeat with grace and courage, and since has given to Presi¬ 
dent Wilson a support so sincere and strong as to win the love 
and admiration of the whole American people. 

The Democratic party presents to the State a ticket composed 
of men of the highest character, experienced in important af¬ 
fairs and of proven integrity. At its head is Hon. Frederick D. 
Gardner, who has already demonstrated his keen interest in the 
farming and industrial classes, and his ability as a constructive 
statesman, by originating and forcefully advocating a system of 
rural credits for our State that will result in lessening the in¬ 
terest burden to farmers, and which can be administered in 
co-operation with the national rural credits system now being 
established. 

We heartily recommend the adoption of the proposed con¬ 
stitutional amendment No. 2, known as the Missouri State Land 
Bank Amendment. 

We commend the work of the Democratic General Assemblies 
of the State in the enactment of laws for the better government 
of the State, and the protection of the rights and liberties of its 
citizens, and call attention to the fact that no State has enacted 
more constructive legislation of direct benefit to the people 
than has been enacted by Missouri Democratic Legislatures. 

Support Given Schools 

Among these measures, compelling both public attention and 
indorsement, are the enactment of anti-trust laws (the first 
enacted in this nation); laws encouraging the agricultural, dairy 
and mining industries; adequate labor and strict usury laws; 
adherence to the doctrine and principles of local self-govern¬ 
ment; the genero.is support of our public school system and the 
preservation and protection of the sacred public school fund; 
the consistent and liberal support of our great university; our 
splendid system of normal schools, and the support of our 
eleemosynary and charitable institutions. 

Among recent enactments are the creation of a public service 
commission; the establishment of the State Highway Depart¬ 
ment; the policy of State aid for schools, strengthening weak 
rural schools and assisting city, town and village schools, and 
establishing the teachers’ training course within reach of all; 
the law creating the Board of Pardons and Paroles; the absentee 
voter’s law; the corporation supervision law, compelling hon¬ 
esty in the use of corporate charters; the blue sky law, pror 
tecting our citizens against unscrupulous foreign investment 
companies; the comprehensive revision of the State banking law- 
in harmony with the Federal reserve act; the law providing for 
the employment of convicts in State industries and on the pub¬ 
lic roads, at the same time abolishing the system of private 
contract labor; the insurance rating and supervision law'; the 
law articulating with the Smith-Lever act, enabling our agricul¬ 
tural interests to receive Federal aid; the law granting cities 
the right to adopt the commission form of government. Re¬ 
sponding to the needs of the farm interests of this State, we 
have submitted a constitutional amendment providing for the 
establishment of a State land bank and rural credit system. 
And, in general, w'ith a uniform readiness, have promptly 
enacted any and all safe and'progressive legislation for the gen¬ 
eral good of the people and the welfare of the State. 


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Under a long line of Democratic Governors and State officials, 
Missouri has prospered. Her laws have been enforced. We 
heartily approve aiid unreservedly indorse the wise, efficient and 
capable administration of Gov. Hlliott W. Major and our other- 
state officers. At no time in the history of the State have the 
interests of the people been more conscientiously and effectively 
safeguar ded, and the benefits from this administration will grow 
and widen wrth the passing year's. 

We call particular attention to the fact ttiat for the biennial 
period of 1915-16, the money apportioned to the public school 
children of the State exceeds the amount apportioned to the 
school children during any other biennial period by $300,000, and 
exceeds the amount apportioned in the biennial period of 1907- 
08, when the Republicans were in control of the finances of the 
State, by almost $1,000,000; and we indorse the action of our- 
present Democratic State officials in having the question of the 
apportionment of school funds forever settled by a decision of 
the Supreme Court. 

We congratulate the taxpayers of Missouri upon the fact 
that, during the pagt eight years, a majority of the State Board 
of Equalization has ocen sufficient to thwart the persistent ef¬ 
forts of the only Republican executive the State has had since 
the Civil War, in attempting to treble the taxes of the people, 
and we declare ourselves in favor of a law compelling holders 
of hidden wealth to return same to the Assessor for taxation 
purposes. 

The Democratic party is proud of the fact that during the 
biennial period of 1915-16 under Democratic administration 
there has been paid from the State Treasury to the various 
counties of the State, toi good roads, almost a million dollars. 
This is startling and gratifying when we consider the fact that 
during the biennial period of 1907-08, when Republicans were 
in charge, there was nothing paid to the benefit of good roads 
from the State Treasurjq 

We declare our hearty interest in the development of country 
life. We favor the enactment of laws to protect farmers and 
dealers against the uses of adulterated farm seeds. We also 
favor- a revision of the dairy laws so that they will meet the 
needs of modern dairying in this State, 

The party stands for adequate financial support of health 
boards and health officers of the State, counties and cities. 

It stands for the maintenance of county tuberculosis hos¬ 
pitals and public tuberculosis nurse service, financially aided 
tjy State and nation. 


Coiniieiisation Laiv 

The Democratic party pledges itself to make ample appro¬ 
priation to care for the dependent ex-Confederate soldiers of 
Missour-i. 

We pledge the people that the business of the State will be 
conducted in a business-like manner and with strict economy. 
We will provide a method by which the General Assemblv, upon 
convening, shall be furnished with an accurate estimate^ of the 
State revenues, together with a tabulation, showing all fixed 
charges and the amounts necessary to maintain the various 
State institutions and departments, and such other information 
as may be necessary to a full understanding of the condition of 
the State’s finances. 

We further pledge the candidates of this convention that 
they will keep the appropriations of the State within its esti¬ 
mated revenues. 

We pledge ourselves to the enactment of a just and adequate 
workmen’s compensation law, fairly and efficiently adminis¬ 
tered. 

We favor the submission by the next General Assembly to the 
voters of Missouri of the (luestion of the need of a new State 
constitution. 

The public approval of our party’s work in amplifying the 
State support of the public schools is convincing evidence of 
the wisdom of what has already been done in this direction. 

Mi.s.soiiri the Center 

We reaffirm our devotion to the cause of publ’c education 
and pledge our support to measures tending to the development 
in the youth of the State a character that shall be rooted in a 
reverence for truth, in a sympathy for one's fellows, and in a 
patriotism that shall always be ready to sacrifice selfish inter¬ 
ests to the welfare of the State. 


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Believing that better rural schools and good roads on which 
they may be reached will do much in solving one of the serious 
social ills of the time, w'e pledge ourselves to their improvement 
and to the co-operation with the Federal Government to this 
end. 


State development—Missouri is “the center State” both as to 
location, citizenship and opportunity, and we urge co-operation 
in organized activity for the practical development of Southern 
Missouri and the State at large as the ideal country for invest¬ 
ment, welcoming the homeseeker and home builder, to the end 
that Missouii-made, Missouri-mined, and Missouri-grown prod¬ 
ucts may increase in favor throughout the world. 


‘‘Col. Gardner is a clever gentleman and I have no quar¬ 
rel with him. I shall indulge in no personalities and if they 
are injected into the campaign it must be done by others 
and not by me. But he is running for governor upon a plat¬ 
form which indorses the extravagant administration at Jef¬ 
ferson City, which has bankrupted the State Treasury, and 
crippled the activities of and impaired the efficiency of the 
State’s eleemosynary, penal and educational institutions. 
Gardner also is running upon a platform indorsing what is 
called the Gardner land bank law. These matters I intend 
to discuss fearlessly and as vigorously as I can. These are 
issues in which the people are interested and I would not 
deserve to be governor of Missouri should I fail to discuss 
them and state my views upon them.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 


“You can raise the million dollars necessary to establish 
the land bank in three ways; first, by raising your taxes; sec¬ 
ond, by issuance of bonds and paying them off with interest; 
third, by starving every activity of Missouri, by stinting her 
schools, her roads and by depriving her unfortunates of ade¬ 
quate attention. Do you want to do this?”—Judge Henry 
Lamm. 


“I have been referred to as Hercules. If I remember cor¬ 
rectly, Hercules cleaned out 3,COO or more stables. When a 
small boy I learned the functions of a broom and it is up 
to us Republicans to all man ourselves with brooms that will 
sweep clean the State house at Jefferson City.”—Judge Hen¬ 
ry Lamm. 


‘‘They appropriated $1,000,000 from the state treasury to put 
this land bank act in operation, but everybody knows that 
there is not a dollar in the treasury which the State does 
not owe. The State treasury is busted fiatter than a flitter, 
the State’s purse is as flat as if an elephant had stepped on 
it. How then are you to get the million dollars to start 
Gardner’s land bank? 

‘‘There are three ways, the first is by increasing your 
taxes; the second, by issuing bonds, and the third is by 
skimping and starving the philanthropies of the State and 
permitting the State’s unfortunates and the State’s educa¬ 
tional institutions to suffer. We owe the State University, 
the State Normal, the State Penitentiary, sums aggregating 
many thousands of dollars. We owe the colony for Feeble 
Minded at Marshall more than $70,000; the ex-Confederate 
pensions are unpaid, and the aggregate pensions now due them 
will exceed $150,000. Where then is that million to come 
from?”—Judge Henry Lamm. 





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Gardner Bill and Single Tax 


Detailed .Analysis by Judge Henry Lamm of the Gardner 

Land Bank Bill. 


(From Judge Henry Lamm’s Opening Speech at Springfield, 

Sept. ,11.) 

My distinguished opponent is reported to have lately said in 
a public interview that if I criticised his land bank bill I would 
lose 50,000 Republican farmer votes. As he puts all his eggs 
in that one basket, I intend now and then to analyze that bill 
and discuss it, subjecting it to a proper critical investigation- 

Have you ever read the Gardner land bank bill? Not the 
glowing advertisement put forth broadcast in the state as a 
part of a propaganda of a nomination primary and continued 
since, but the real thing, the bill itself? Read it, by all 
means, for you must pass on and make it a part of our Con¬ 
stitution at the November election or reject it. It was knowm 
in its passage through the legislature as the “Gardner Cam¬ 
paign Bill,” but that was a flippancy of no value now. Thou¬ 
sands and thousands of Democrats were told before the pri¬ 
mary that it was a mere hobby to ride into offlce, but that does 
not concern us either. 

Neither does it concern us that the bill in some of its parts 
reads more like an argument than a law. That is a matter 
of taste, not of principle. But it does concern us to know 
whether the bill is a clear, working, wise, valid law. 

It is a well known historical fact that Missouri once had 
an experience in banking, and so disastrous were the results 
that it not only went out of the business, but wrote into the 
Constitution of the State a provision which prohibited the leg¬ 
islature from again putting us into such business. 

The Gardner land bank bill, which was passed by the last 
legislature and approved March 23, 1915, was found to be in 
direct conflict with Section 26, Article XII, and other pro¬ 
visions of the Constitution of Missouri, and therefore void. Pe¬ 
titions have been circulated under the provisions of the initia¬ 
tive and referendum laws of this State and have been filed 
with the Secretary of State, requiring a submission at the No¬ 
vember election of an amendment to the Constitution of the 
State changing our fundamental law in order to validate the 
Gardner bill. It should be remembered that when the Con¬ 
stitution has been amended by validating the bill, the bill 
itself can never be thereafter amended to cover its defects 
by any new acts of the legislature. To^ do that thing, the 
Constitution itself would have to be amended by a curative 
amendment. It is so written in the Constitution. 

Section 4 of the proposed Gardner amendment to the Con¬ 
stitution reads as follows: 

“Any law heretofore enacted by the General Assembly in ac¬ 
cordance with the provisions of Sections 1, 2 and 3 hereof, 
shall be deemed valid from and after the adoption thereof.” 

It is clearly apparent that the “law heretofore enacted by 
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is the law known as the Gardner bill, enacted by the last 
legislature (see page 196, Session Acts of Missouri, 1915). The 
Gardner bill now lies dead—still born—in the statutes, and 
the purpose of Section 4 above quoted is to bring it to life, and 
bringing it to life by a constitutional amendment would make 
it a part of the Constitution. Some good lawyers say that 
it could not thus be brought to life and that the effect of the 
proposed amendment would be merely to embalm it and pre¬ 
serve it in the Constitution, but assuming that Section 4 of 
the Gardner amendment would vitalize his bill, it is clear that 
it would exist from and after the adoption of such constitu¬ 
tional amendment as a part of the Constitution, for as soon 
as the people vote in favor of the proposed amendment, the 
Gardner bill being by reference made a part of the amend¬ 
ment, it at once becomes a part of the Constitution, and from 
that time forward it will be the organic law made by the peo¬ 
ple themselves and as a part of the Constitution it would limit 
and control any law on the same subject thereafter enacted 
by the legislature. 

In so serious a matter as a change in a great governmental 
policy which requires an amendment to the Constitution, no 
fair minded man. can be heard to object to a reasonable discus¬ 
sion and a just consideration. 

It is of sharp interest to know that either one of two things 
is true about that bill, namely, it was so illy considered at its 
passage that it was not discovered at the time that it openly 
and flagrantly violated our Constitution in vital aspects (a 
fact admitted by all students of our Constitution), and that it 
was a piece of legislative folly until and unless the Constitu¬ 
tion was amended, or else the legislators knew that fact and 
purposely refused to pass and submit a resolution amending 
the Constitution and left it to the author of the bill to take 
the cumbersome and expensive course of using the initiative 
method of submitting a constitutional amendment by petition, 
if he saw flt. 

We stand for rural credits by an efflcient and just law. My 
present impression of his bank scheme is that it is unneces¬ 
sary from any point of view. All men know that the vast pow¬ 
er and wealth of the federal government are behind a land 
bank scheme for rural credits to be carried out by land banks 
reaching every nook and corner of our country. What I would 
like to know is why Missouri, at this critical time in her affairs, 
should embark in the expensive and hazardous banking busi¬ 
ness when the federal government has passed a law which 
covers the same ground? Is the federal government scheme a 
bad or ineffective one? If so, why? Why should we start a 
rival scheme in Missouri when the state government from 
what we have seen this last year apparently has all it can do 
(and a little more now)? Take, for instance, our roads, peni¬ 
tentiary, schools and eleemosynary institutions, pensions to 
indigent Confederate soldiers and big deficiency bills looming. 
It seems clear that we do not need a Missouri land bank bill 
until it is shown that the federal scheme is ineffective or in¬ 
sufficient. 

I labor under the impression, also, that all men know the 
million dollars appropriated by the last legislature to start 
his bank was an appropriation made from an empty treasury, 
a sucked orange, a treasury already exhausted by several 
million dollars of over-appropriation. It was a silly appropria¬ 
tion without a dollar of cash to back it. It is as plain as a 
pikestaff that there is not now in the state treasury, and will 
not be at the time called for in the law, to-wit, December 1, 
1916, or at any other time, a million dollars of free money sub- 


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ject to the appropriation made by the last legislature for that 
bank. 

MEANS BONDS OR MORE TAXES. 

The only way to get the million dollars to furnish the capi¬ 
tal of that bank is by an issue of bonds, by increased taxation 
—one or the other—or else every other state activity must be 
starved. I would like to hear my distinguished opponent come 
down out of the clouds to the solid ground and explain where 
he intends to get his million dollars to start his bank and how. 
Indeed and in truth, his bank scheme is, in its present shape, 
but part and parcel of the wild and reckless over-appropria¬ 
tion of several million dollars beyond our revenue made by 
the last legislature. 

My study of his bank scheme leads to the conclusion, fur¬ 
thermore, that it has the wretched infirmity of being a po¬ 
litical bank pure and simple. There are several chips right 
there with several bugs hid under them. Its board of gov¬ 
ernors (directors) are changed every four years as the result 
of a political campaign. I am under the impression that no 
one ever heard of a great bank being run in that way. The 
thing never was done successfully and never will be. It is an 
unthinkable business proposition, openly inviting disaster. Its 
vast patronage is made a part of the spoils system by the 
bill itself. 

Moreover, the scheme proceeds on the theory that interest 
can be cheapened by taking off all taxes on the money loan¬ 
ed by the bank—that is, the purchasers of the bonds to be 
issued pay no taxes. Now, why does not the scheme take off 
the taxes (if we want to go into business of that sort) on 
money loaned by any one on real estate so that farmers who 
do not want to go into this intricate and experimental bank 
scheme could also get money at cheapened interest from any 
source, and the people who own homes in towns and are in 
debt for them could also be aided by money cheapened by 
being relieved from taxation? And right here another inquiry 
springs, to-wit., why are not the benefits of the bill in cheap¬ 
ened money allowed to descend on the heads of the tenants 
who own no land, but rely on crop and other chattel mortgages 
to finance their farming operations? Why isn’t the widow 
who owns no home allowed to borrow cheap money upon 
her cow? A general provision striking off taxation from all 
such loans would give cheap money to the tenant and the 
widow who surely need cheap money, would it not? 

In going into the banking business it has generally been 
admitted on all hands among intelligent men, that the ex¬ 
pense and losses of the bank should be met by profits. Un¬ 
der the bill, as passed, there is not a penny of profit accruing 
to the state? No issue is taken on that. Now, who pays the 
expense of running the bank? Who bears the losses? The 
general taxpayer or the borrower? That is a vital inquiry, 
or have we at last reached the millenium in banking, and are 
there to be no expenses and no losses? If it is the intention 
that the mice and rats of expense and loss shall nibble at the 
capital stock of the bank, how long will it take them to eat 
it away? The bill takes no adequate note of this deadly fea¬ 
ture and offers no adequate safeguard. If it is proposed that 
the borrowers pay the expense and meet the losses out of 
the one-half of one per cent they pay on the amount they 
borrow, then that will create a fund each year of $5,000 on 
each million loaned. Does any intelligent man suppose that 
the bookkeeping,, the stationery, the books, the postage, the 
salary of clerks, the salary and expense of appraisers and 
managers and the losses in this intricate and vast experi- 


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mental bank will not exceed that amount by many thousand 
dollars for each million loaned? Now, what provision is there 
for paying.the excess or for meeting the losses? If it is in¬ 
tended that the taxpayer should do so, should not the bill 
frankly say so and make provision for it? Believe me there 
IS a bug hid under that chip. 

SOME OF THE BILL’S DANGERS. 

The bill makes the state collect the interest on the mortgage 
debts, the state then hands over to the debenture holder the 
interest on his debenture, sold him by the state. Suppose 
these two amounts, because of bad crops, death or other 
accident or disaster, do not equal each other, what then? Is 
it the intention that the state or the capital of the bank makes 
good the difference and keeps up the credit of the debenture 
for the time being by paying the interest? If so, then the 
bill should have frankly said so and made a provision for it. 
It certainly does not. If the debenture holder is to take the 
chance of his collecting agent, the state, not having been 
able to collect and hence not able to pay the debenture in¬ 
terest, the point should have been made clear by the bill. The 
credit of the debenture on the market certainly depends on 
a clear understanding on that point, and the bill is silent. If 
the credit and honor of the state are pledged in that vital 
aspect, then the people should know it. If not, the debenture 
holder should know it and the bill should make it clear. It 
does not. 

What provision in the bill is there for seeing to it that the 
money loaned is actually and honestly devoted by the borrow¬ 
er to the express purposes provided by the act? None. What 
penalty is there for using the borrowed money in any way 
the wit or needs of the borrower suggests to him or divert¬ 
ing it from the purpose of the law? None. The bill stops 
short with handing over the money. It was loosely drawn to 
admit so great a defect and such a loophole for scandal as 
that. 

There is no provision in the bill itself limiting the existence 
of the bank or providing for winding it up if the experiment 
should prove disastrous or unsuccessful. It is to be a bank 
for all time, for weal or woe, unless the Constitution be again 
amended; therefore, it should be well looKed to. Foresight 
is better than hindsight and tne public should look well 
before it leaps. 

Not only does the bill create a flock of political jobs which 
will be filled by party workers, whose duration in office de¬ 
pends upon the continuation in office of the political board 
which the law provides shall control and manage the bank, 
but it gives to such political board and to the party workers 
holding appointments under them a powerful club over the 
borrower, which may be used with telling effect for campaign 
Ijurposes. What more effective instrument could be given to 
the party in power for building and perpetuating a political 
machine? 

We have recently witnessed the spectacle of a warden of 
the penitentiary ordering the guards of that institution to 
vote for certain candidates for office and instructing them 
to urge upon the grocer, the butcher, the merchant and others 
with whom they deal, to vote for such candidates, and in this 
connection it is well to remember that the Gardner bill 
designates as governors of this bank the same state officials 
that constitute the board which has so grossly mismanaged 
the state penitentiary during the past three years. Do the 


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taxpayers of Missouri want to put their money into a bank 
with the prospect of having it managed as the penitentiary is 
now being managed? 

Furthermore, what justice is there in levying upon the farm¬ 
er who doesn’t want to go into this intricate banking scheme, 
a tax for the purpose of raising the $1,000,000.00 capital stock. 
What justice is there in levying such a tax upon the merchant, 
the grocer, the butcher or the mechanic and other laborers 
who, under the provisions of the bill, are not permitted to bor¬ 
row from such bank. 

There are other lurking dangers in this bill- It certainly is 
a long step in the direction of the single tax heresy, and it 
surely violates Article 10, Section 3 of the Constitution, w^hich 
ordains: 

“’Taxes * * * shall be uniform upon the same classes 

of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levy¬ 
ing them.’’ 

The Gardner bill (see page 196, Session Acts of Missouri, 
1915) provides that when the bank shall have loaned $500,000.00 
and shall have on hand, to that amount, secured deeds of 
trust, it shall have power to sell and issue its debenture bonds 
for a like amount, and that after the first issue of $500,000.00 
of debenture bonds the bank may sell and issue like series of 
debenture bonds at any time and as often as in the judgment 
of the managers there shall be on hand deeds of trust of 
an amount sufficiently large to make such a series. 

The Gardner bill further provides that the debenture bonds 
of said bank shall be exempt from State, county and munici¬ 
pal taxes of any and all kinds. 

The bill further provides that bonds may be issued on notes 
and deeds of trust to the aggregate amount of $40,000,000.00. 
In other words, the man who has money for investment and 
who desires to escape taxation upon such personal property 
can invest such money in debenture bonds. Under the pro¬ 
visions of the Gardner bill, such issues can be continued until 
$40,000,000.00 of personal property in the State is invested in 
non-taxable debenture bonds, and after the $40,000,000.00 have 
been consumed, then the Gardner bill provides for additional 
issues, so that there is no limit to the amount of personal 
property which may thus become exempt from taxation; then, 
too, WHEN THE FARMER SUCCEEDS IN GETTING CHEAP 
MONEY, THE LABORER WHOSE HOME IN THE TOWN IS 
MORTGAGED, WILL DEMAND CHEAP MONEY; AND THE 
TENANT WHO HAS ONLY HIS TOOLS AND CROP WILL 
DEMAND CHEAP MONEY; AND THE WIDOW, WHO OWNS 
HER COW, WILL DEMAND CHEAP MONEY; AND THE 
MAGNANIMOUS PARMER WHO ENJOYS THE BENEFIT 
OF CHEAP MONEY WILL NOT BE WILLING TO DENY 
THAT BENEFIT TO THE LABORER, THE TENANT OR 
THE WIDOW, AND THE INEVITABLE RESULT WILL BE 
THAT ALL LOANS UPON PERSONAL AND REAL PROPER¬ 
TY WILL SOONER OR LATER, BE EXEMPTED FROM TAX¬ 
ATION; AND WHEN THAT DAY COMES, AS IT MUST RAP¬ 
IDLY COME UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE GARDNER 
BILL, WHAT WILL THERE BE LEFT UNDER THE LAW 
TO TAX EXCEPT THE LAND, AND THAT IS PRECISELY 
WHAT THE SINGLE TAX CHAMPION ADVOCATES, 

ISN’T IT TIME THAT THE FARMER SHOULD AWAKE 
TO A REALIZATION OF THE PACT THAT BEHIND THIS 
ATTRACTIVE AND ALLURING CHEAP MONEY SCHEME 
LURKS THE DREADED SINGLE TAX HERESY? 


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?9 


The State’s Finances 


A Record of Deficiencies Under the Last Democratic State 

Administration. 


The Republican State Platform of 1916 makes this suc¬ 
cinct and unassailable statement as to the finances of the 
State: 

“Four years ago the Republican State Platform declared: 

“ ‘This state administration has been so economically con¬ 
ducted as to convert a deficit of more than a million dollars 
at the beginning of the administration into a surplus now in 
the state treasury.’ 

“The Democratic State Platform of 1912 admitted this sur¬ 
plus and declared: 

“ ‘The surplus now in the treasury and the splendid finan¬ 
cial condition of the State of Missouri are due to the wise 
and efficient management of Democratic officers and are the 
result of laws enacted by Democratic legislatures.’ 

“With the Democratic administration in power, the finan¬ 
cial condition of the State is now pitiable. Its plight is not 
due to the loss of revenue. The receipts from general and 
special taxation surpass all records. The state institutions 
are crippled. In spite of the secrecy as to financial condi¬ 
tions, anomalous in a free government, it is known that 
many of the state institutions scantily subsist on borrowed 
money or funds doled out by the governor, acting under a 
belated and unconstitutional ‘economy order’ of his own 
devising. The last General Assembly overappropriated the 
estimated revenue $5,500,000. The governor approved all 
but $3,000,000 of this. Un January 26, 1916, after the first 
half of the biennium had elapsed, he issued his ‘economy 
order,’ seeking to do two years’ retrenching in one. A month 
prior to this ‘economy order’ the Supreme Court of the state 
ordered the return of $334,189.32, which had on July 3, 1915, 
been wrongfully diverted from the public school fund to the 
general revenue fund under a new and fanciful interpre¬ 
tation of the language of an appropriation act set forth in a 
purported opinion of the attorney general, which he repudi¬ 
ated before the test suit was called for trial. The present 
Democratic administration added $3,790,734.91 to the cost 
of government in its first two years, over the preceding 
two years of the Hadley administration. The appropriations 
for salaries alone for 1915 and 1916 exceed those for 1911 
and 1912 by $454,262. The last two general assemblies made 
unnecessary increases of state expenditures. Such extrava¬ 
gance and incompetency are responsible for the humiliating 
condition of our state finances.” 

It might well have added the financial plank of the Dem¬ 
ocratic state platform of 1914, which reads as follows: 

“State Finances—The splendid financial conditions of the 
state and the unprecedented surplus now in the treasury at¬ 
test to the wise and economical management of state af¬ 
fairs.” 




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Even later than this, Governor Elliot W. Major in his mes¬ 
sage to the 48th General Assembly in January, 1915, de¬ 
clared: “The financial condition of Missouri is good. The 
biennial period closed December 31, 1914, and all obligations 
have been paid promptly as presented.” 

This brings the discussion of our financial condition well 
into the present administration. The Democrats are es¬ 
topped from raising any questions as to the preceding ad¬ 
ministration’s finances. 


“I am going to prove in this campaign that Missouri has 
been the best managed state financially, under Democratic 
rule, in the Union/’ said Col. Fred D. Gardner, Democratic 
candidate for Governor at the Democratic State Convention 
in Jefferson City. This statement followed the adoption of 
the Democratic platform containing the following plank: 

“We heartily approve and unreservedly endorse the wise, 
efficient and capable administration of Governor Elliott W, 
Major, and our other State officials. At no time in the his¬ 
tory of the State have the interests of the people been more 
conscientiously and effectively safeguarded.” 

The above reflects the view of the Democratic candidate 
for Governor, as well as the Democratic party concerning 
■th© handling of the State finances during the last four years. 
As Democracy claims that the Major administration has 
never been excelled and that Missouri is the best handled 
state in the Union financially, it is fair to presume that 
no improvement is needed or can be looked for in the event of 
Democratic success. 


It is a notorious fact that State finances were never in 
worse condition. While it is difficult to get access to the 
State records, it is known that the Major administration 
was the most extravagant in the history of the State and 
the State closed last year with a deficit of one and a half 
million dollars. Appropriations of the last legislature run 
riot and the revenues were over-appropriated $4,973,275. 

The extravagance of the present administration was so 
pronounced that even the Democratic State Treasurer felt 
duty bound to call public attention to the fact and in his an¬ 
nual report dated June 1st, 1915, presented a table com¬ 
paring the expenditures in the different departments for the 
biennial period of 1911 and 1912, under Republican adminis¬ 
tration, with the biennial period of 1913 and 1914, under 
Democratic administration. 

In this report ho shows that the Governor, for current 
expenses and maintenance of the Governor’s Mansion, spent 
during 1911 and 1912, $41,694.12, while during 1913 and 
1914, there was spent $49,192.51, this being an increase of 
$7,498.39 under Democratic rule. 

The Secretary of State spent in 1911 and 1912, $56,183.06, 
while in 1913 and 1914, there was expended $62,462.61, an 
increase under the Democratic years of $6,29'7.55. The fees 
received by the Secretary of State in 1911 and 1912, amount¬ 
ed to $323,312.90, while in 1913 and 1914, the fees amounted 
to $262,297.02. WTiile the expense of conducting the Secre¬ 
tary of State’s office increased ^$6,279-55 under Democratic 
rule, the fees collected decreased' $61,015.88. 

The Attorney General’s office spent in 1911 and 1912, $54,- 
607.07, while in 1913 and 1914 there was expended $63,917.83, 
an increase under Democratic years of $9,310.76. 




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The State Auditor’s office spent in 1911 and 1912, $44,957.89, 
while during 1913 and 1914, there was expended $66,678.39, an 
increase of $21,720.50 during Democratic years. This offir*e 
received in 1911 and 1912, $10,414.18 in fees, while in 1913 and 
1914, there was received $19,831.93 for fees. Thus it took an 
increased operating expense of $21,720.50 to collect an in¬ 
crease of $9,417.75 in fees. 

The Beer Inspection department in 1911 and 1912 spent 
$41,689.06, and in 1913 and 1914, spent $50,570.18, an increase 
of $8,881.12. In this office during 1911 and 1912, there was 
received for beer stamps tax $962,159.33, while during 1913 
and 1914, there was received from the same source $987,- 
869.63. Thus, under Democratic rule, tnere was an increase 
of $25,710.30 in beer stamp tax receipts at an increased op¬ 
erating expense of $8,881.12. 

The total expenditures of the State during the years 1911 
and 1912 were $19,025,503.37, and in 1913 and 1914 were 
$22,816,238.31, being an increase in cost under Democratic 
rule of $3,790,734.94. The present administration is the 
most extravagant in the history of the State, and yet gained 
the endorsement and approval of the Democratic convention 
and the Democratic nominee for Governor. 


The extravagance of the present State administration was 
such that Governor Major was compelled to issue his cele¬ 
brated economy order which virtually stopped all public build¬ 
ing and permitted only the payment of official salaries and 
the minimum running expenses of the State. The Legisla¬ 
ture appropriated $60,000 for an intermediate reformatory at 
Boonville, but this work was stopped under the economy or¬ 
der of the Governor. The reconstruction of the buildings 
destroyed by fire at the Warrensburg State normal was or¬ 
dered stopped, as about $175,000 appropriated for that pur¬ 
pose was not available. A school for the feeble-minded and 
epileptic at Marshall, for which the legislature had appro¬ 
priated $100,000, could not be constructed. There are already 
a thousand applicants- to this institution who cannot be ad¬ 
mitted for lack of room, and because of the shameful ex¬ 
travagance of the present administration, those who are 
unfortunately afflicted cannot be given the treatment a 
humane state should provide. 

So desperate is the condition of the State finances that 
the State University was compelled to go to private banks 
to borrow money with which to pay salaries and current ex¬ 
penses. $83,000 was borrowed some time ago and another 
$50,000 being arranged for. 

The State is behind $150,000 in its payment of Confederate 
pensions, and the aged veterans who expected State aid dur¬ 
ing their declining years, are deprived of this assistance 
through the mismanagement and criminal extravagance of 
the present Democratic administration. Even the Feeble- 
Minded School at Marsnall cannot get its Junds, the State 
now owing that institution over $70,000. Meantime, the State 
officials and the army of relatives on the pay roll, regularly 
receive their pay. 

The State penitentiary has had to borrow at least $150,000 
to meet its current needs and although matters of this kind 
have been kept as secret as possible, it is known that 
most of the educational and eleemosynary institutions of the 
State are in the same condition. 



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■ So depleted were the State finances that in May of 1915, 
the Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State 
Auditor and the State Treasurer, held a secret conference 
and took $514,503,02 from the funds belonging to the school 
children of the State, and endeavored to use these funds for 
the general expenses of the State. 


In the face of these conditions, which do not admit of 
controversy, the Democratic platform boldly declares that 
never have the interests of the people been given more 
considerate attention and the Democratic nominee for Gov¬ 
ernor brazenly proclaims that Missouri is the best managed 
State financially in the Union. 

The voter who is pleased with the present state of the 
finances in this State, can secure a continuance of the pres¬ 
ent carnival of extravagance by electing Col, Gardner, Gov¬ 
ernor, and continue in power the political party which brazen¬ 
ly boasts of the present outrageous conditions of our finances. 
No improvement can be expected either through Col. 
Gardner or the Democratic party in this State, for 
they both claim the record is unexcelled. If any change is 
to be expected, there must be a thorough house-cleaning 
at Jefferson City, and the Democratic party, which has 
brought about the sad condition of our finances and injured 
the good name of the State throughout the nation, should 
be overwhelmingly defeated at the polls this year. 


“Speaking of the raid on the school fund, my opponent’s 
platform declares, in substance, that the State is to be con¬ 
gratulated in having a disputed point settled by the Su¬ 
preme Court. * * ♦ 

“The cold record is that the money was withheld and used 
secretly. The people knew nothing about it till long after it 
was done. That nobody had raised that point except those 
who needed and took the money for other State purposes is 
history. That the suit in the Supreme Court was an after¬ 
thought to avoid a flame of public indignation leaping moun¬ 
tain-high is known, too. That the raid was in the teeth of a 
long settled construction of the law made by those who were 
friendly to the schools and that unless the court had rapped 
the knuckles of the fist that held the money, it w'ould have 
been lost to the schools, is also a known fact.”—Judge Henry 
Lamm. 


“Furthermore, if the land bank scheme does not squint to¬ 
wards a single tax eventually and if it is not a long step in 
that direction, I would like for my distinguished opponent to 
tell me why and let us reason together a bit about that 
proposition before the voters. It seems to me there is a 
chip there and a bug under it. My opponent and I could dis¬ 
cuss these questions and many others relating to his bank 
scheme in a friendly way and I would hope to get him to 
abandon his scheme altogether after the discussion and let 
the campaign proceed on other lines. For instance on the 
line of whether we do not need a change in Missouri and 
whether the people are really and truly as satisfied with 
what has happened in the State and its political and busi¬ 
ness affairs in the last few years as his State platform af¬ 
firms.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 





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43 


School Fund Juggle 


The Attempt to Divert the School Funds and What it 
Would Have Cost Each County Had the Court 
Not Interfered. 


On August 4, 1915, the people of Missouri were surprised 
to read that on July 3rd preceding, the State Auditor had 
certified to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
an apportionment of the public school funds which was 
$317,733.35 less than for the preceding year, although the 
general revenue had increased $600,000. Following the 
method of interpretation which had been used since 1887 
the school apportionment for 1915 would have been $514,- 
503.22 more than certified. It is a matter of common knowl¬ 
edge that the Supreme Court of Missouri on December 22, 
1915, ordered the return of $334,189.31, which it held had been 
wrongfully diverted from the public school fund. It will be 
seen, however, that this effort resulted in a loss of $180,- 
313.71, which would have gone to the school fund for 1915, 
had not this question of interpretation been raised. The 
schools will suffer proportionately every year unless the 
general assembly modifies the language of the school fund 
appropriation act to meet the Supreme Court’s decision. 
This is the reason for the vote of thanks which the Demo¬ 
cratic state platform of 1916 gives when it says: “We en¬ 
dorse the action of our present Democratic state officials in 
having the question of the apportionment of school funds 
forever settled by a decision of the Supreme Court.’’ 

How it Was Settled. 

The diversion, of the school fund was agreed upon at a 
secret conference of the state officials in May, 1915. Even 
before that time, as early as November, 1913, the State 
Auditor had procured an opinion from Assistant Attorney- 
General Fitch to the effect that “ordinary revenue’’ meant 
only proceeds of direct taxation. For some mysterious rea¬ 
son the 47th and 48th General Assemblies were allowed to 
re-enact the school fund appropriations without their at¬ 
tention being called to this opinion. The apportionment 
was made and the money diverted to the general revenue 
fund nearly a month before the vigilant correspondents dis¬ 
covered the facts on August 3rd. The Auditor at first de¬ 
clined to explain why he had departed from the customary 
interpretation of the language of the school fund appro¬ 
priation. Finally he said nis action was based upon an opin¬ 
ion by the Attorney-General. On August 8th the State 
Superintendent of Public Schools said that he was helpless, 
that he would have to abide by the opinion of the Attorney- 
General. Indignation was rife throughout the state. School 
boards began employing attorneys to test the validity of the 
action of the Auditor. On August 9th the State Superin¬ 
tendent announced that he would, at the request of the 
Auditor, file a friendly suit to test the new interpretation 
of the law. Both the Governor and the Attorney-General 
were out of the State. Vague and unsatisfactory interviews 
appeared from the Attorney-General who was on a Chautau¬ 
qua trip. The Governor returned to the State and promised 
an extra session of the Ger.eral Assembly (which would 




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cost $250,000) to see that the public schools lost nothing, 
if the Supreme Court upheld the interpretation which he 
and his associates had placed upon the appropriation act in 
the preceding May. 

On August 29th, the Attorney-General announced that he 
would withdraw his opinion. The next day he did so in a 
letter to the State Auditor directing him to return the entire 
$514,503.02. The Auditor refused to be governed by the new 
opinion and insisted on the matter going to the Supreme 
Court. Subsequently an offer to compromise was made, but 
public opinion demanded that the case be pressed to an 
end. The day the suit was filed, August 12, 1915, there was 
only $46,655.94 left in the treasury with which to replace the 
school fund, had an order come instanter. It was the need 
or money and not the desire to interpret the school fund 
appropriation act which was responsible for this juggle. 

School Fund Juggle 

The State apportioned to the schools this year, $1,951,042.27. 
The following table shows the amount apportioned to each 
county and how much each county would have lost had the 
Supreme Court not compelled the state-house crowd to return 
the $334,189.31 they had unlawfully taken: 


Adair .$ 

Andrew . 

Atchison . 

Audrain . 

Barry. 

Barton . 

Bates . 

Benton . 

Bollinger . 

Boone . 

Buchanan . 

Butler . 

Caldwell . 

Callaway . 

Camden . 

Cape Girardeau . 

Carroll . 

Carter . 

Cass . 

Cedar . 

Chariton . 

Christian . 

Clark . 

Clay ..■ 

Clinton . 

Cole. 

Cooper . 

Crawford . 

Dade. 

Dallas .. 

Daviess . 

DeKalb . 

Dent . 

Douglas. 

Dunklin . 

Franklin. 

Gasconade . 

Gentry. 

Greene. 

Grundy .’ 

Harrison . 

Henry . 

Hickorv. 

Holt . !!!!;;! 

Howard . 

Howell . 

Iron .. 

.Tackson . 


Amount 
finally ap- 


Amount 
each coun¬ 
ty would 
have lost 
under 
Demo- 


portioned to 

cratic 

each county. 

plan. 

12,264.18 

$ 2,317.66 

9,223.50 

1,784.10 

9,281.98 

1,713.61 

10,989.66 

2,137.67 

21,226.54 

2,535.95 

10,414.87 

2,159.41 

15,848.31 

3,099.42 

15,549.65 

1,457.02 

10,365.83 

1,068.58 

17,330.64 

3,220.58 

38,877.13 

7,955.24 

13,491.24 

2,433.80 

10,801.70 

2,052.03 

14,596.84 

2,284.82 

11,916.59 

1^41.44 

14,212.95 

^96.30 

15,271.31 

2,850.49 

3,572.59 

425.35 

16,332.39 

2,587.92 

11,842.40 

1,665.80 

15,281.74 

2.673.11 

11,594.61 

1,819.77 

8,869.63 

1,449.03 

12,472.84 

2,376.10 

9,651.44 

1,839.42 

9,561.19 

1,691.83 

10,291.51 

1,885.77 

12,284.27 

1,390.52 

11,178.39 

1,872.51 

17,805.27 

1,288.08 

12,537.44 

2,071.95 

7,618.60 

1,440.17 

10,612.73 

1,265.30 

15,299.54 • 

1,433.06 

14,434.95 

3,288.52 

14,526.63 

2,646.83 

6,288.49 

1,085.77 

10,466.57 

2,001.98 

33,148.03 

6,958.42 

10,703.17 

2,143.37 

16,214.89 

2,823.99 

18.110.73 

3,211.50 

5,994.39 

751.91 

10,066.44 

1,894.49 

8,290.25 

1,560.21 

21,372.17 

2,288.50 

4,431.25 

750.67 

65,037.95 

28,524.05 


















































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Amount 
each coun¬ 
ty would 
have lost 

Amount under 

finally ap- Demo- 

portioned to cratic 

each county. plan. 


Jasper . 48,456.69 10,334.25 

Jefferson . 12,806.04 2,494.93 

Johnson . 14,226.36 2,707.22 

Knox . 9,274.98 1,288.71 

Laclede . 15,795.94 1,731.97 

Lafayette . 15,415.77 2,994.20 

Lawrence . 15,231.23 3,134.00 

Lewis. 9,382.79 1,586.58 

Lincoln . 9,273.57 1,773.23 

Linn . 17,044.41 3,458.78 

Livingston . 11,777.66 2,215.24 

McDonald . 11,834.45 1,682.62 

Macon . 17,092.17 3,264.40 

Madison . 9,134.07 1,025.60 

Maries . 9,629.68 757.21 

Marjon . 13,140.17 2,794.52 

Mercer. 8,166.17 1,380.14 

Miller. 12,995.59 1,547.51 

Mississippi . 7,998.77 1,548.83 

Moniteau . 8,783.16 1,409.67 

Monroe . 9,489.02 1,809.74 

Montgomery . 10,421.94 1,629.51 

Morgan . 7,725.98 1,231.56 

New Madrid. 10,787.57 2,258.01 

Newton . 16,943.32 3,207.63 

Nodaway. 20,091.10 3,628.70 

Oregon . 12,242.99 1,588.74 

Osage. 5,893.71 1,071.99 

‘Ozark. 10,445.25 1,064.77 

Pemiscot . 7,948.22 1,581.78 

Perry . 7,056.18 902.58 

Pettis. 19,056.26 3,682.23 

Phelps . 11,579.93 1,699.17 

Pike . 11,721.28 2,169.59 

Platte. 9,116.25 1,762.30 

Polk . 16,310.86 2,372.55 

Pulaski . 11,544.55 1,462.77 

Putnam . 11,412.24 1,596.63 

Ralls . 6,089.13 1,123.53 

Randolph . 15,307.46 3,072.39 

Rav . 13,335.62 2,677.63 

Reynolds. 7,199.50 849.69 

Ripley . 12,448.00 1,367.74 

St. Charles. 7,118.00 1,341.89 

St. Clair . 15,676.42 1,688.31 

St. Francois. 19,717.37 4,128.42 

Ste. Genevieve . 6,083.10 655.58 

St Louis. 39,168.23 8,389.54 

Saline. 18,030.75 3,103.91 

Schuyler . 8,017.03 994.91 

Scotland . 9,938.00 1,392.83 

Scott. 12,994.10 2,643.09 

Shannon . 14,272.34 1,374.00 

Shelby . 9.080,40 1,571.05 

Stoddard . 17,241.34 3,324.22 

Stone . 10,346.03 1,193.90 

Sulivan . 13,352.73 2,425.54 

Taney .. 8,798.16 ' 870.21 

Texas . 28,269.44 2,475.95 

Vernon . 20,993.24 3,349.57 

Warren . 4,865.41 759.58 

Washington . 6,578.34 1,185.45 

Wayne. 11,765.20 1,733.08 

Webster . 10,162.87 1,746.46 

Worth . 5,849.69 951.72 

Wright . 18,677.59 2,204.66 

St. Louis City. 304,865.05 60,030.58 


Total .$1,951,042.27 $334,189.31 


“If the raid on the school funds was not necessary to 
supply funds to pay the civil list of the State and prevent 
a paralysis, then it was inexcusable. If it was necessary, 
then it was so much the more inexcusable, because such ne¬ 
cessity should have been foreseen and prevented.”—Judge 
Henry Lamm. 









































































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School Fund Notes 


Some Interesting and Pertinent Facts About the School 

Money of the State. 


The Democratic State platform contains a plank endorsing 
the record of the Democratic State administration in “the 
generous support of our public school system and the preser¬ 
vation and protection of the sacred school fund.” If this 
section of the platform is meant as a joke, it is a good 
one. If it is meant seriously, it is an insult to the intelligence 
of the Missouri voter. 


Missouri at one time possessed a large permanent school 
fund, but it no longer exists. Under Democratic rule, this 
was diverted into so-called certificates of indebtedness, which 
were later legalized by constitutional amendment, and in 
place of a permanent school fund, we have fostered on the 
State a permanent and perpetual debt, now amounting to 
$4,398,839.42. As regular as the legislature meets an appro¬ 
priation is made to pay the interest on this debt (called cer¬ 
tificates of indebtedness) and at the last Legislative session, 
under act of February 12th, 1915, found on page 88, of the 
1915 session acts, there was appropriated $500,503.93 to pay 
the interest on this debt. Through Democratic juggling our 
permanent school fund, in place of being loaned to others, has 
been used by the State itself and a permanent State debt 
created. 


The proceeding of the state-house crowd last year was a de¬ 
liberate attempt to make inroads on the funds of the public 
schools. This is plain in view of the fact that when they 
agreed to divert these funds, they immediately spent the 
money. On June 30th, 1915, only $89,000 of the $514,503.02 
under controversy was on hand, the officials already having 
spent $425,000. Had the Supreme Court promptly ordered 
this money returned it could not have been done, for the 
funds were not on hand. 

When their action became public, they gave as an excuse 
that they desired to bring about an interpretation of the school 
fund law and make its provisions clear. It is noteworthy, 
however, that the only claim of a lack of clearness came 
from Democratic officials whose extravagant administration 
had practically bankrupted the Sate. Had they been sincere 
and had they any regard for the law, they would have re¬ 
spected the funds of the schools until the courts determined 
the matter, rather than take the funds in secret conference 
and spend them before an outraged public became aware of 
their action. 


After the storm of protest had gone over the State, Gov¬ 
ernor Major and State Auditor Gordon, both anounced that 
should the court rule against the schools, the amount under 
controversy would be set aside as a special fund and the 
Legislature convened to reappropriate it for the benefit of the 
schools. In view of the fact that the money was already spent, 
there was little consolation in this promise, and as a special 
session of the Legislature costs something like a quarter of 
a million dollars, this plan of the Governor’s does not appeal 
strongly to the taxpaying citizens of the State. 

Through the action of the Court, the school apportionment 
was decreased $180,313.71, but notwithstanding the Major and 







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Gordon promise, this amount has neither been set aside nor 
has there been any session of the Legislature called to return 
the money. 


The Democratic platform endorses this action of the State 
officials. Col. Gardner, Democratic nominee for Governor, 
endorses it. Will the voters of the State endorse it on elec¬ 
tion day? 


“Moreover the scheme proceeds on the theory that interest 
can be cheapened by taking off all taxes on the money loaned 
by the bank, that is, the purchasers of the bonds to be is¬ 
sued pay no taxes. Now why does not the scheme take off 
the taxes (if we want to go into business of that sort) on 
money loaned by anyone on real estate so that farmers who 
do not want to go into this intricate bank scheme could 
also get money at cheapened interest from any source, and 
the people who own homes in towns and are in debt for 
them could also be aided by money cheapened by being re¬ 
lieved from taxation?”—Judge Henry Lamm, 


“My study of his bank scheme leads me to the conclusion 
furthermore that it has the wretched infirmity of being a 
political bank pure and simple. There are several chips right 
there with several bugs hid under them. Its board of gov¬ 
ernors (directors) are changed every four years as the re¬ 
sult of a political campaign. I am under the impression 
that no one ever heard of a great bank being run in that 
way. The thing never was done successfully and never 
will be. It is an unthinkable business proposition, openly 
inviting disaster.”—Judge Henry Lamm, 


Judge Lamm spoke to the Polk County farmers straight from 
the shoulder on the land bank act. He told them his wealthy 
opponent. Col. Gardner, while in Jefferson City attending 
the Democratic State Convention in his private car said 
that if he attacked the land bank act it would cost him 
50,000 Republican farmer votes. 

“I do not care if it costs me a million votes, I propose to 
discuss this measure and to reveal to you the bug under the 
chip,” he said. “Col. Gardner can’t scare me by talk like 
that. I was not raised in the woods, to be scared by an 
owl.” 


One of Judge Lamm’s telling points against the Gardner 
land bank act was the fact Congress has enacted a federal 
rural credits law and that a State system is wholly unnec¬ 
essary: 

“The State of Missouri once went into the banking busi¬ 
ness, but that came to a dismal end, and the people wrote 
into a constitution, adopted then, a provision prohibiting the 
State from going into the banking business again,” he said. 


Mr. Gordon is the one candidate on the Democratic ticket 
who ought by all means and under all circumstances to be 
retired from office. He is the remnant of the Major fiasco. 
His unfitness is attested by overwhelming evidence in the 
record. The Missouri voters will hardly care to re-elect 
the Gordon family.—St. Louis Post-Dispatcn. 








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Illiteracy in Missouri 


The Low Rank the State Holds in Educational Matters Under 

Democratic Rule. 


Democratic rule in this State has not been completely 
broken since 1873. While the Republicans have elected one 
Governor and a few other state officers during that time, 
Democracy has not l 9 st complete control of the State gov¬ 
ernment since they came into power after the Civil War. 

The Democratic platform just adopted at Jefferson City en¬ 
dorses the support which the Democratic administration 
has given to education in this state. Yet, the 1910 census 
shows that among illiterate males of voting age, Missouri 
stands 20th in the list of States, and that among illiterate 
persons of ten years of age and over, Missouri stands 21st 
in the list of States. 

There is something radically wrong with our educational 
system. The fact that twenty states have a lower illiteracy 
than Missouri, shows that there is need for a change in 
Missouri’s affairs, not only in the executive and legislative 
branches of the state, but also in our educational system. 


“No honest men want crooked work at the polls or in the 
count after they close. It is said that the voice of the people 
is the voice of God, but I tell you stuffed voting lists, stuffed 
ballot boxes, repeaters, thuggery, bribery at an election, 
make the voice of the people false and spurious voice, which 
it is sacrilege and mockery to call the voice of God.”—Judge 
Henry Lamm. 


Our constitution, recognizing the danger, prohibits a sec¬ 
ond term to the Governor. Has not the time come to take 
another step and prohibit a Missouri Governor from becoming 
a candidate during his official term for any other office 
within the gift of the voters of Missouri? Such a prohibition 
would tend to do away with personal political machines, a 
source of scandals in the great charitable institutions and 
other governmental activities would be dried up, and our 
Governors would see their only chance for distinction in the 
faithful performance of gubernatorial duties—duties that 
are many enough and heavy enough, as all men know, to 
absorb their energy.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 


“By slovenly business methods and reckless extravagance 
Democratic officials have bankrupted the State treasury and 
seriously crippled the State educational, eleemosynary and 
penal institutions. All of the activities of the State gov¬ 
ernment have been starved. This is especially true of the 
schools and philanthropies. I was advised today that the 
State owes the poor, little defectives at the colony for feeble¬ 
minded at Marshall over $70,000. 

“I want to say to you that the man elected Governor de¬ 
serves sympathy instead of congratulations if he is to tacKle 
the miserable political mess created by the present adminis¬ 
tration and clean it out.”—Judge Henry Lamm. 







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49 


An Expensive Official 


Record of the Democratic State Auditor’s High Priced Trip 

to Utah. 


By a majority that was overwhelming, the Democrats 
of the State have renominated John P. Gordon for State Audi¬ 
tor and thus endorsed the actions of this State official. 

Gordon attended a meeting of the State Auditors at Salt 
Lake City last year, and allowed himself a claim against the 
State of $201.21 for making the trip. The items of this account 
follow: 

Railroad fare Jeff. City to Salt Lake City and return 

Pullman and observation car fares. 

Meals on trains both ways. 

Hotel and meals at Salt Lake City. 

Taxicab fare . 

Incidental expenses for 10 days. 

Expenses en route to Salt Lake City. 

Railroad fare, Chicago & Alton. 

Observation car, Chicago & Alton. 


• $ 201.21 

When the Prosecuting Attorney of Cole County prosecuted 
Gordon for allowing himself this money, some interesting de¬ 
velopments were disclosed. Aside from his railroad and Pull¬ 
man fares to and from Salt Lake City, Gordon allowed himself, 
while traveling, an item of $8.50. When asked what this was 
for he did not know, but suggested that perhaps it was for 
tips. As it required but four days to make the trip to and 
from Salt Lake City, Gordon seems to have been quite liberal 
in tipping. THE STATE PAID THE BILL. 

Gordon allowed himself a charge of $10.50 for taxicab fare, 
thus availing himself of the most expensive means of trans¬ 
portation. THE STATE PAID THE BILL. 

Gordon allowed himself $28.00 for meals while traveling to 
and from Salt Lake City. He testified that it required four 
days to make this trip, so his meals cost an average of $7.00 
a day, or $2.33 for every meal during that time. THE STATE 
PAID THE BILL. 

Arriving in Salt Lake City, Gordon’s appetite seemed to in¬ 
crease. He allowed himself $82.50 for hotel bills while in that 
city, testifying that he was there five days and that his room 
rent cost him $2.50 a day. He testified that none of this 
bill was for cigars or drinks, and the only other legitimate 
purpose for which the balance of this bill could be charged 
was for meals. Deducting from the $82.50 the $12.50 room 
rent, would leave $70.00 for meals for the five days, being an 
average of $14.00 a day, or $4.66 for every meal while in Salt 
Lake City. THE STATE PAID THE BILL. 

Gordon also allowed himself a dollar a day for incidentals, 
this probably being used to buy a bit of lunch between meals. 
THE STATE' PAID THE BILL. 


$38.50 

18.00 

28.00 

82.50 

10.50 
10.00 

8.50 

4.46 

.75 













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Whatever else may be said of Mr. Gordon, he is a luxurious 
tra'^eler, and doubtless the Auditors of the other states were 
impressed with the fact that Missouri’s treasury was overflow¬ 
ing. Few would have suspected that the State’s finances were 
so low that the general revenue fund was being replenished 
with the money of the school children. 

Morris Gordon, son of John P., Supervisor of Building and 
Loans, took a trip to San Francisco to attend a meeting of 
Building and Loan Supervisors, and filed an expense bill with 
the State for $202.90, the items of which follow: 


R. R. fare Jeff. City to San Francisco and return.$56.40 

Pullman and observation cars. 24.00 

Meals on the train. 30.00 

Expenses en route. 5.00 

Taxis and incidentals. 15.00 

Hotels and meals. 72.50 


$202.90 

John P. Gordon, as Auditor, allowed this account. THE 
STATE PAID THE BILL. 

Gordon has practical nepotism to such an extent that the 
present Democratic State Chairman sent a letter over the 
State, urging that he be defeated for renomination. Almost 
every member of his family is on the State pay roll, their 
combined salaries and fees amounting to about $12,000 a year. 

Gordon was one of the parties that conspired to take from 
the school funds $514,503.02 and which .was only defeated 
through Court action. When Dr. Hill, President of the Mis¬ 
souri University, made public the fact that $83,000 had been 
borrowed by that institution to meet salaries and current ex¬ 
penses of the University, Gordon publicy abused him, and at¬ 
tempted to belittle the head of our University because the 
extravagance of the State administration compelled that insti¬ 
tution to go to the banks for support the State should have 
given. 

The Democratic State platform and Col. Gardner, Democratic 
nominee for Governor, both endorse the Gordon record. 


“I labor under the impression also that all men know that 
the million dollars appropriated by the last legislature to 
start his bank was an appropriation made from an empty 
treasury—a treasury already exhausted by several million 
dollars of over-appropriation. It was a silly appropriation 
without' a dollar of cash to oack it. It is as plain as a 
pikestaff that there is not now in the State treasury, and will 
not be at the time called for in the law, to-wit, December iyl6, 
or at any other time a million dollars of free money sub¬ 
ject to the appropriation made by the last legislature for that 
bank.—Judge Henry Lamm, 


“We complain bitterly of legislatures with five or six clerks 
to each Democratic Senator and three times more than were 
necessary in the House. We complain of extravagance at a 
time the State needed every dollar of its revenue for press¬ 
ing needs and useful ends—for schools, roads and sensible 
plans for social justice.—Judge Henry Lamm. 











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51 


Coverings Things Up 


A Democratic Newspaper Tells of the Democratic Attempts 

to Hide Ugly Facts. 


As an evidence of the desperate attempts of the Demo¬ 
cratic State officials to conceal the financial plight, the fol¬ 
lowing is taken verbatim from a dispatch from the Jefferson 
City bureau of the St. Louis Republic, May 1, 1916: 

DEAL SUPPRESSES 
MONTHLY REPORT ON 
STATE’S FINANCES - 


From the Jefferson City Bureau of 
The Republic. 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 1.— 
The report of the transactions^and 
condition of the State Treasury for 
April was filed by Treasurer Deal with 
Gov. Major today, following the re¬ 
quirements of law, but, contrary to 
custom, the figures v/ere withheld 
from the newspaper correspondents. 

A facsimile of the Treasurer’s re¬ 
port, prepared from the books of State 
Auditor John P. Gordon, covering 
April, was also filed with the Gov¬ 
ernor, but this, too, was not made 
public. 

No explanation was given as to why 
the two reports were withheld, except 
that instructions had been given that 
the figures were not to be given out. 

That the general revenue fund is 
“cramped” after the payment of the 
civil list covering salaries for April 
there is no doubt, but what purpose is 
served by refusing to make public the 
monthly statement is not apparent. 

$4,500,000 Unavailable. 

Auditor Gordon was out of town to¬ 
day and his chief clerk, Willard P. 
King, stated instructions had been re¬ 
ceived from Gordon not to give out 
the figures. 

There has been a standing order 
from Treasurer Deal for several 
months that the figures of the month¬ 
ly report must not be given out. 





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Increased Expenditures 


Shown by the Biennial Report of the Democratic State 

T reasurer. 


Soon after the Governor’s message in 1915, the Democratic 
officials were startled at the appearance of the biennial report 
of State Treasurer Deal. This report showed that for the 
biennium 1913 and 1914, the State’s disbursements had been 
$3,790,734.94 more than for 1911 and 1912. Of this increase 
$1,063,202.89 was from the State revenue fund. He showed 
that the seventeen State departments had increased their 
expenditures $257,066.36 over the preceding biennium. The 
receipts and disbursements by departments are as follows: 


Following is a comparison of the expenditures of *the last 
two years of the Hadley administration with the first two 
years of the Major’s administration: 


Governor . 

Secretary of State. 

Attorney General. 

State Auditor. 

State Treasurer. 

Supt. Public Schools. 

Beer Inspector . 

Oil Inspector. 

Labor Commissioner .... 

Bureau of Mines. 

Poultry Association . 

General Assembly. 

Insurance Superintendent 
Warden Penitentiary.... 

Bank Commissioner. 

Factory Inspector. 

Hotel Inspector . 

♦Increase. 


1911 - 12 . 

41 , 694 . 12 ' 

56 , 183 . 0*6 

54 , 607.07 

44 , 951.89 

25 , 880.20 

34 , 082.76 

41 , 689.06 

36 , 285.91 

46 , 487.36 

34 , 402.71 

31 . 222.81 
239 , 579.49 

58 . 258.81 
693 , 792.12 

73 . 693.56 

34 . 142.56 
22 , 479.64 


1913 - 14 . 

$ 49 , 192 . 5 f 

62 . 462.61 
63 , 917.83 
66 , 678.39 
31 , 028.98 
43 , 787.26 
50 , 570.18 
52 , 990.79 
47 , 268.36 
42 , 946.93 

62 . 495.97 
279 , 364.89 

72 , 054.42 

763 , 294.63 

80 . 226.61 

35 . 760.98 
26 , 702.15 


* 1913 - 14 . 
$ 7 , 498.39 
6 , 279.55 
9 , 310.76 

21 . 720.50 
5 , 148.78 

9 . 704.50 
8 , 881.12 

16 , 704.88 

781.00 

8 , 544.22 

31 , 273.16 

39 , 785.40 

13 . 795.61 

65 . 502.51 
7 , 094.84 
1 , 618.42 

4 . 222.51 


“The police belong to neither Republicans nor to Demo¬ 
crats, to partisans or nonpartisans. They belong to the 
whole citizenship. They are an armed force, soldiers, paid 
out of the common purse for the common protection of all. 
The army and navy are out of politics. An enlightened 
sense of propriety in this State long since took the schools 
out of politics. It took election commissioners out of poli¬ 
tics, and why should it not take the police, and every patch 
and shred of police activity and the whole machinery of po¬ 
lice management and control out of politics?’’—Judge Henry 
Lamm. 


ATTRACTIVE. 

Undeniable attractiveness is lent the Republican platform 
by its savage condemnation of nepotism and of barbarities 
at the State prison and its pledge of home rule and of the 
introduction of the merit principle into Missouri’s entire civil 
service.—St, Louis Post-Dispatch. 




























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Some Democratic “Achievements.” 


Increased Expenditures Shown in Practically Every Depart¬ 
ment of Administration*. 


Treasurer Deal’s report shows that seventeen departments 
of State Government, including the office of Governor and 
other elective officials, increased their expenditures in 1913 
and 1914 over 1911 and 1912, $257,066. 

This report shows that the expenditures in 1911 and 1912 
were $3,790,734.94 less than in 1913 and 1914. Of this increase 
$1,063,202 was from the revenue fund. 

The Legislature appropriated for the years 1915 and 1916 
$1,165,375 to pay the salaries of the officeholders. In 1911 
and 1912 the total expenditures for that purpose were $711,- 
113.19. The increase is $454,262 for the two years. 

Increased penitentiary payroll over $21,000 for 1913 and 1914. 

Heads of automobile, game and labor departments charged 
up during 1913 and 1914 their board and expenses while in Jef¬ 
ferson City, having established residences where they came 
from. 

Defeated the enactment of a law to make it unlawful for an 
official to appoint members of his own family to public 
office. 

Defeated the passage of a bill for a fair apportionment of 
State senatorial districts to supplant the present gerry¬ 
mander. 

Defeated a bill to repeal the statute under which the State 
Auditor pays out enormous sums of collateral inheritance 
money annually to favorite lawyers in fees for perfunctory 
assistance rendered in the collection of this tax. 

Attempted to fasten the contract system of convict labor at 
the State Penitentiary on Missouri until March 31, 1921, this 
being thwarted by the Republican members of the Legislature. 
The makeshift prison bill was not passed until ten o’clock at 
night of the last day of the session. 

Paid $45,000 during 1913 and 1914 to kinfolks of State 
officials. 

Increased cost of public printing from $184,500 for 1911 
and 1912 to over $265,000 in 1913 and 1914. 

Created jobs in 1913 costing oyer $300,000 a year. 


“State finances are in a bad shape, but we suppose it is 
the duty of Democratic papers to make the best of it and 
defend a reckless and incapable administration.” 

“The Mercury would be in a better humor to whitewash 
profligacy had it not predicted just this condition of affairs 
three years ago, when the orgies of job-making began. It 
refuses to turn a flibflob until it sees further.”—Paris Mer¬ 
cury (Democrat). 





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Governor and Finances. 


Disgraceful Incompetency Shown in Handling the Affairs of 

the State. 


In his message to the 48th General Assembly Governor 
Major said: “The revenues of the State are ample to con¬ 
duct its business and also care for in an efficient way all 
of our educational eleemosynary and penal institutions when 
economically expended and without increasing the burden of 
taxation upon the people, or upon any business or class.” 
In the same message he stated that the estimated revenue for 
the years 1915 and 1916 would be approximately $11,500,000. 
He said: “The Legislature must take this into consideration 
in making appropriations, because I will not permit the appro¬ 
priations to exceed the reasonable expectancy of the revenue.” 
The appropriations did exceed the estimated revenues $4,973,- 
275. 

On January 25, 1916, Governor Major issued an “economy 
order” under which he attempted to withhold $1,200,000 of 
the appropriations he had approved as necessary within thirty 
days after the adjournment of the General Assembly. Were 
the original appropriations extravagant? Or is the economy 
order at the sacrifice of these institutions? 

It will be noted that the Governor’s order came within 
thirty-five days after the Supreme Court had ordered the re¬ 
turn of $334,189,31 to the public school fund. 

The Governor at this time said there h^d been a shrinkage 
in revenues, but on May 4th he admitted that this shrinkage 
had been balanced by unexpected increases of other revenues. 
As the case stands, the Governor, whose administration the 
Democratic party “heartily approves and unreservedly en¬ 
dorses” as “wise, efficient and capable,” approved appropria¬ 
tions which he knew to be $2,500,000 in excess of the expect¬ 
ancy of the revenues. 

There was no competency in dealing with the situation. The 
Warrensburg Normal was partly rebuilt, but must await the 
action of another General Assembly before it can be com¬ 
pleted. The money thus idly-speht would have been used by a 
competent administration for other purposes. It now stands 
as a monument to the present administration’s incompetency. 


“The only way to get the million dollars to furnish the 
capital of that bank is by an issue of bonds or by increased 
taxation—one or the other—or else every other State activ¬ 
ity must be starved. I woula like to hear my distinguished 
opponent come down out of the clouds to the solid ground 
and explain where he intends to get his million dollars to 
start his bank and how. Indeed, and in truth, his bank 
scheme is, in its present shape, but part and parcel of the 
wild and reckless over-appropriation of several million dol¬ 
lars beyond our revenue made by the last legislature.”— 
Judge Henry Lamm. 





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Legislative Employes. 


Scandalous Waste of the Public Money in Providing Jobs 

for Party Workers. 


The last session of the Missouri Legislature was the most 
extravagant known in Missouri history. Nearly 500 Demo¬ 
cratic politicians were on the payroll as clerks, janitors, etc., 
and the cost for this horde of Democratic partisans was in 
excess of $140,000, or $2,000 for each of the 70 days of the 
session. 

The membership of the House is 142 and of the Senate 34, 
a total in both houses of 176, so that there were nearly three 
times as rpany employees as there were members of the 
Legislature. While the number was later increased, when the 
session began there was a total of 475 employees made up as 
follows: 

In the House there were 171 clerks; 24 janitors and 17 
pages, and in the Senate there were 208 clerks; 42 janitors, and 
13 pages, a total of 475. 

During the same year, the Wisconsin Legislature had a total 
of 99 employees, the Michigan Legislature a total of 99 and 
the Indiana Legislature a total of 136 employees. Comparison 
with these states shows the extreme extravagance of the 
Missouri Legislature. 

The Republicans, through Representative Ingel, of Madison 
County, introduced a measure to reduce the number of legis¬ 
lative employees, but the Democratic committee smothered 
the resolution. 

WTth the extravagance shown by the Missouri Legislature, 
it is not surprising that the State is out of funds, that our 
educational institutions must go to banks to borrow money, 
and that raids have to be made on the school funds of the 
State. 


DEMOCRATIC STATE “EFFICIENCY.” 


The Democratic State platform endorses the “efficient 
and capable” Major administration. Seventeen departments 
of this administration spent $257,066.36 more during the 
years 1913 and 1914, under Democratic rule, than was spent 
during the years 1911 and 1912, under Republican rule. 

If this be efficiency, may the taxpayers of Missouri be 
spared from any more of it. 


UNPAID DEBT TO CONVICTS. 


At the beginning of this year the State of Missouri owed 
to former and present convicts $150,000, due them under the 
law, which requires the payment to convicts of five per cent 
of their earnings. Every Missourian should be ashamed of 
this confidence game worked on the helpless convicts. 








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Providing For The Family 


The General Practice of Nepotism on the Part of Democratic 

State Officials. 


A Jefferson City special dispatch to the Globe-Democrat, 
dated September 5, 1916, thus describes how the “royal 
families’' are faring on the payroll: 

The failure of the Democratic state platform convention 
to denounce the practice of nepotism, as did the Republican 
convention, possibly is explained by an examination of the 
family pay roll for August, 

Slate Auditor John P. Gordon issued warrants and State 
Treasurer Deal paid for August a total of $4,291,64 to the 
ruling Democratic families in Jefferson City. Here are the 
amounts paid to several families represented on the state 
pay roll for August: 

Gordon Family—John P, Gordon, State Auditor and Dem¬ 
ocratic nominee for re-election, $250; Mrs. Oma Gordon, 
wife of John P. Gordon, option stamp clerk, $150; Morris 
G. Gordon, supervisor of building and loans, a son of John 
P. Gordon, $200; Mrs, Nellie Gordon, wife of Morris Gordon, 
clerk in the Building and Loan Department, $75; total for 
Gordon family, $675. 

Roach Family Gets $500. 

Roach Family—Cornelius Roach, Secretary of State, $250; 
Miss Celestine Roach, daughter of Cornelius Roach, clerk, 
$150; Miss Lina H. Millard, sister-in-law of Roach, sten¬ 
ographer, $100; total for Roach family, $500. 

Major Family—Gov. Elliott W. Major, $416.66; Edward T. 
Major, brother of Gov. Major, Secretary of State Fair Board, 
$200; total for Major family, $616.66. 

Mosby Family—Thomas Speed Mosby, State Beer Inspec¬ 
tor, $250; Miss Frances Mosby, daughter of Speed Mosby, 
clerk in beer inspection department, $150; total for Mosby 
family, $400. 

Allen Family—Jacob D. Allen, Clerk of the Supreme Court, 
$250; William H. Allen, son of Jacob D. Allen, a deputy 
clerk of the Supreme Court, $125; total for Allen family, $375. 

McClung Family—D. C. McClung, Warden of Missouri 
Penitentiary, $250; Carl McClung, son of Warden McClung, 
commissary officer in the Penitentiary, $100; total for Mc¬ 
Clung family, $350. 

Rader Family—Perry S. Rader, official reporter of the 
Supreme' Court, $250; John Rader, son of Perry S. Rader, 
assistant reporter of Supreme Court, $166.66: total for Rader 
family, $416.66. 

Dillard Family—Joseph G. Dillard, state hotel inspector, 
$166.66; Mrs. Marguerite Dillard, wife of Inspector Dillard, 
$75; total for Dillard family, $241.66. 




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Mitchell Family—J, T. Mitchell, state bank commissioner, 
$29i.66; F. C. Mitchell, son of J. T. Mitchell, bank examiner, 
$166.66; total for Mitchell family, $458.32. 

Others on Pay Roll. 

In addition to the families holding jobs by direct or in¬ 
direct influence of relatives at the heads of departments, 
there are the following lamilies on the pay roll: 

Bradbury Family—Thomas M. Bradbury, Secretary of the 
Public Service Commission, $300; Frank Bradbury, son of 
Thomas M. Bradbury, a clerk in the State Warehouse De¬ 
partment, $125; Howard* Bradbury, half brother of Thomas 
M. Bradbury, $100. Total for the Bradbury family, $525. 

Hawkins Family—James P. Hawkins, Secretary of the 
State Mining Bureau, $150; Mrs. Pearl Hawkins, wife of 
James P. Hawkins, stenographer. State Insurance Depart¬ 
ment, $100;. Total for Hawkins family, $250. 


THE STATE PAYROLL. 


Accurate figures regarding State affairs are not available. 
The correspondent of the Kansas City Star claims the salary 
list of officeholders at Jefferson City has grown as follows: 


1911 and 1912.$ 771,113 

1913 and 1914. 922,449 

1915 and 1916. 1,165,375 


In four years there has been an increase of over 51 per cent 
in the offceholder’s salary list. Little wonder the State is 
busted and raids have to be made on the school funds of the 
State. 


SHOULD TELL WHOLE STORY. 


In Col. Gardner’s speech at the opening of the State cam¬ 
paign he boasted that “The Democratic administration is grat¬ 
ified to tell the public that this year close to $2,000,000 has 
been set aside for public schools.” 

Had Gardner been fair, he would also have notified the 
public that had the present administration been able to 
carry out -the plans which they formulated in secret confer¬ 
ence, the appropriation for the public schools would have been 
$334,189.31 less than it is. The present administration was 
only prevented from taking this fund from the schools by 
Court action taken at- the instance of an outraged public. 

When Col. Gardner tells how much the schools received 
he should be fair enough and tell how much less they would 
have received, had the present Democratic administration, 
which Gardner unqualifiedly endorses, succeeded in their 
attempt. 









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Penitentiary Findings 


The Facts That Were Revealed by a Legislative Investigation 

in 1915. 


The minority members of the ISlBTlouse Investigating Com¬ 
mittee found among other things concerning the State Peniten¬ 
tiary, as follows: 

‘‘We were very much surprised to find that the Penitentiary 
authorities had never kept an account of the receipts or dis¬ 
bursements of the commissary until January 1, 1915. The ex¬ 
pert accountants on page 38 of their report in commenting 
on this department use the following language: 

“ ‘Our examination of the records of this department was 
not satisfactory owing to the lack of data. The condition of 
affairs existing during the early part of the period under re¬ 
view was chaotic in so far that it was quite impossible for this 
department to keep track of the prison supplies. , 

“ ‘The prison authorities w’ere aware of this condition and 
were also familiar with the methods of keeping account of 
supplies, as was shown, later, but did not apply their knowl¬ 
edge until the beginning of the present year, the system now 
in existence keeping proper account of all supplies which are 
purchased for the commissary, both witH regards quantity and 
value, and a proper record of the quantity and value of sup¬ 
plies issued by the commissary.’ 

Private Store Attacked. 

“The expert accountants on page 42 of their report to the 
committee make the following comment relative to the private 
store: 

“ ‘In the course of our examination we were astonished to 
find that the employe in charge of the commissary, Mr. Carl 
McClung, was conducting a private store located in the com- 
misary building. We cannot find any authority in the minutes 
of the meetings of the Board of Inspectors giving this valu¬ 
able privilege to the warden’s son. Mr. Carl McClung is not 
charged for light, rent, heat or labor, the convicts doing the 
work, so that there must be a considerable profit derived 
by him in conducting the store. In the evenings we observed 
a line of convicts waiting to be served at the store.’ ” 

Commenting upon the operation of the private store by Carl 
McClung, Ing and Harr found serious fault with the system 
which permitted the warden’s son to enjoy this privilege while 
receiving, in addition, a salary from the State, of $100. They 
had the following to say: 

“It is the opinion of the minority members of this com¬ 
mittee that if a private store is to be conducted inside of the 
prison walls that it should be under the control of the State, 
conducted by the State, and not operated as a private institu¬ 
tion, separate and apart from the Penitentiary proper, nor for 
private gain. 

“A Vicious System." 

“We believe it to be a vicious system which would permit 
the warden’s son or anyone else such extraordinary privilege, 
with all opportunities to appropriate supplies from the com¬ 
missary. 




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“NeDotism in official circles is at best subject to some 
degree of criticism, and we regard this instance as one that 
cannot be viewed with any degree of favor. Carl McClung, as 
an employe of the Penitentiary, receives a salary of $100 a 
month. It is, therefore, his duty to devote his time to at¬ 
tending to the duties for which he is paid by the State. 

“We recommend that this condition be brought to the 
Board of Prison Inspectors and that the attention of the next 
Legislature be called to it, to the end that such steps may be 
taken as will put an end to this unwarranted condition. 

“We find that this private store has been conducted for 
many years and that near relatives of previous wardens 
have had charge of it.” « 

Harr and Ing recommended a change in the Board of Prison 
Inspectors as follows: 

“It is the sense of your committee that a change be made 
tn the Board of Prison Inspectors. It is the duty of the board 
to visit the Penitentiary and investigate the conditions pre¬ 
vailing and to do other things in connection with the depart¬ 
ment, which necessarily requires a great deal of time and 
attention. Anyone at' all familiar with the duties of the offi¬ 
cers constituting this board knows that they have not the time 
to devote to the duties of prison inspection and we believe 
that better results would be obtained by placing the duties 
of prison inspection on a board not already burdened with 
official duties that demand their entire time and attention. 

“It is the judgment of the minority members of this com¬ 
mittee that the law should be so changed that the Board of 
Prison Inspectors should consist of five men who are in no way 
connected with the State Government, two of whom should 
be selected from the political party casting the next highest 
number of ballots at the last previous State election, and they 
should be paid a sufficent salary to justify them in devoting 
their time to the duties of their position. 

“Or if it is thought advisable to save expense and to avoid 
the creation of new offices, too many of which already exist, 
we suggest that the Board of Pardons and Paroles, being al¬ 
ready engaged in a work that brings them into direct contact 
with the prison and its inmates, be vested with the powers of 
the Board of Inspectors. It occurs to us that the only objec¬ 
tion that could be urged against the last mentioned body would 
be the lack of time from their present duties.” 

McClung’s Activity Assailed. 

Ing and Harr declare in their report that they fail to see 
how McClung, managing as he does the largest penal institu¬ 
tion in the world, finds time to act as chairman of the Demo¬ 
cratic State Committee. They direct attention to the fact 
that although the statutes say that the warden shall devote 
his full time to the duties of his office, that he found time to 
do political work and that his salary went on just the same. 
Upon this point the minority report says: 

“The charge has often been made that the Penitentiary 
is, in its management and control, subject to political influ¬ 
ence. This charge we believe is justifiable. The warden is 
appointed by the Governor and he frequently selects a man 
for that position who stands high in the ranks of his political 
party, the present warden being chairman of the State Com¬ 
mittee of the political party to which the Governor belongs. 

“This condition has occasioned frequent charges of political 
influence, such as campaign contributions by Penitentiary 
employes, the warding of prison contracts and furnishing of 


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prison supplies, and the warden devoting his time to political 
duties while drawing a salary from the State. 

“Section 1633, Revised Statutes, 1909, of the State of Mis¬ 
souri, provides as follows: 

“ ‘The warden and deputy warden shall devote their whole 
time to the duties of their respective offices.’ In view of the 
above provision of our State law, we have been made to won¬ 
der how the warden of the largest penitentiary in the world 
could comply with its provisions and at the same time perform 
the duties of a great political party. 

“No one will doubt for a moment that the chairman of 
any great political party must devote a great deal of his time 
to the affairs of party politics, in conducting campaigns and 
shaping the policies of his party. While he is engaged in this 
way he cannot at the same time devote his whole and entire 
time to the duties of his office. 

“Such a system is conducive to political corruption, and we 
believe that it would be better to empower the Board of In¬ 
spectors, constituted in either of the ways above mentioned, 
to appoint the warden, or remove him for cause, and make 
him subject to the control and directions of the board, and 
in any other way possible remove the Penitentiary from politi¬ 
cal control.” 

Servant Plan Attacked. 

Ing and Harr declared they could find no law authorizing 
The Prison Board to give McClung 50 cents a day in supplies 
for the upkeep of his six convict servants. 

“The expert accountants on page 38 of their report say: 

“ ‘Although confronted by the difficulties indicated, we 
were able to obtain a fairly satisfactory check on the pur¬ 
chase and issue of foodstuffs, our examination disclosing 
that foodstuffs to the value of $8051.92 had not been ac¬ 
counted for.’ 

“On page 39 of the accountants’ report they say: 

“ ‘The deficiency may be accounted for in one or all of the 
following ways: (1) Inventory of foodstuffs at December 
31, 1912, overstated; (2) Inventory of foodstuffs at Decem¬ 
ber 31, 1914, understated; (3) Value of issues understated; 
(4) Goods misappropriated.’ 

“As before stated,” continues the minority report, “there 
was no system of accounting in the commissary department 
prior to January 1, 1915, and it is therefore impossible to deter¬ 
mine just how or when this shortage occurred. The fact that it 
did occur at all speaks for itself as to the kind of manage¬ 
ment prevailing. 


No Inventory Taken. 

“We find that the present warden took charge of the 
Penitentiary in March, 1913, and that he did so without 
taking any inventory of supplies on hand at that time, and 
knew absolutely nothing as to the amount or value of the 
property he was taking into his possession. This has been 
the case, not only with the present warden, but of all his 
predecessors, so far as we have been able to determine; 
the incoming warden never requiring an inventory from 
his predecessor. This appears to the minority members of 
your committee to be loose management and we believe 
it would be well to call the attention of the Board of Prison 
Inspectors to this matter and we recommend that all future 
outgoing wardens be required to make a complete inven- 


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tory of all prison property on hand at the time he retires, 
and that the same be delivered to his successor and pre¬ 
served as a record of the prison. 

“Then, by keeping correct account of all* supplies furn¬ 
ished to the commissary and issued for the commissary, 
there could not arise such a condition as we now find.” 

Meat Contracts Questioned. 

The minority report dwells at some length with the re¬ 
port of the accountants upon the awarding of the prison 
meat contracts during the last biennial’ period. They de¬ 
clare that, although Armour was shown by the accountants 
to nave been the lowest bidder only on frankfurters, that 
that concern received the contract. The Prison Board re¬ 
cently aw'arded the contract to Armour for the current year, 
but figures given out by the board indicated the bids of that 
concern were lowest this year. 

I 

The minority report on the meat contract follows: 

“In the matter of the purchase of supplies for the com¬ 
missary w^e find that there is some question as to the 
method used in procuring them. In the purchase of meats, 
fuel and electrical supplies bids are received and contracts 
awarded presumably to the lowest and best bidders. 

“In awarding the contracts for the supplying of meats, 
however, it appears that the contract has not always been 
awarded to the lowest and best bidder. 

Meat Figures Cited. 

“For the period from May 1, 1913, to September 5, 1914, 
Armour & Co. w'ere awarded the contracts. The accountants 
on page 29 of their report to your committee comments on 
this matter as follows: 

“ Tn the following cases Armour & Co. were underbid, 
but the contract was awarded to them nevertheless. For the 
supply of carcass beef, cows and heifers, 450 pounds and 
up, equal fore and hind quarters, the Sulzberger and Sons 
Company quoted .0896 per pound; Armour & Co. quoted 
.0960, or .0064 per pound in excess of the Sulzberger quotation. 

“ ‘For the supply of carcass beef, two fores and one hind, 
during the same period. Armour & Co. quoted .0910, the 
Cudahy Packing Company .0905, the Sulzberger company 
. 0872 . 

“ ‘For the supply of carcass beef steers, equal fore and 
hinds, Armour quoted .1070 per pound, Cudahy .1068 per 
pound and Sulzberger .1016 per pound. 

“ ‘For the supply of carcass beef steers, two fores and one 
hind. Armour’s bid was .1020 per pound, the Cudahy Pack¬ 
ing Company .1005, and Sulzberger .0982 per pound. 

“ ‘For the supply of pork shoulders Armour & Co. was 
underbid by the Cudahy Packing Company to the amount of 
.003 per pound. For the supply of bologna sausage Armour 
& Co. quoted .0935, Swift & Co. .0925, and the Cudahy Pack- 
isg Company .0895. 

“Pork sausage contract was obtained by Armour at .1018 
per pound. Swift & Co. quoting .008 less. 

“‘For the supply of carcass mutton the quotations were: 
Armour & Co., .1084; Morris & Co., .0945 per pound; Cudahy 
Packing Company, .0892.’ 


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Commenting upon the accountant’s report Ing and Harr 
said: 

“There was twelve different kinds of meat supplies, in** 
eluding lard compound, for which bids were received covering 
this period, and in one instance only was Armour & Co. 
the lowest bidder, and that was on the item of frankfurters. 

“They were underbid on four items by Cudahy, on six items 
by Sulzberger, and one item by Swift & Co. 

“The warden and state auditor stated that to their judg¬ 
ment they had given the contract to the lowest and best 
bidder, taking the bids as a whole. 

“They also gave as a reason for not awarding the con¬ 
tract to Sulzberger & Company that on a former occasion 
a contract had been awarded to this company and that the 
quality of meat furnished was not at all satisfactory. 

• 

“We heard no such complaint, however, in regard to any 
of the other companies mentioned, and it occurs to the min¬ 
ority members of this committee that considerable money 
could have been saved the state by awarding the contracts 
to the lowest and best bidders. Why this was not done we 
do not know. 

“During the present management of the Penitentiary,” the 
minority report continues, “no bids were called for nor con¬ 
tracts made for furnishing any supplies except meat, fuel and 
electrical supplies. In the purchase of flour and clothing 
for the prisoners orders were distributed to more than one 
firm, but in the purchase of groceries almost a complete 
monopoly is in the hands of the Goddard Grocery Company 
at Jefferson City, the amount purchased by the state from 
this company during the last biennial period amounting to 
$92,113.97. 

“ ‘We understand that during the previous administration 
monthly bids were made. This no doubt accounts for the 
fact that much less was purchased from the Goddard Grocery 
Company during the Andrae administration than during the 
present administration.’ 

“The minority report recommends a return to the competi¬ 
tive system as follows: 

“It occurs to the minority members of this committee that 
it might be well to re-establish the competitive system and 
award contracts to cheapest and best bidders for many 
kinds of commissary supplies, such as flour, coffee, sugar, 
rice and such other staple groceries as are needed all the 
time. 

“We see no good reason why this has not been done, and 
fail to see the propriety of allowing one firm a monopoly 
without competition. 


Investigation Asked. 

“During the administration of Mr. Hall, a previous warden, 
bids were received for various classes of groceries. We sug¬ 
gest that the Board of Prison Inspectors go into this matter 
more fully and ascertain, if possible, why the competitive 
system was discontinued by the present administration and 
the Goddard Grocery Company permitted a monopoly in the 
supplying of groceries, and we recommend that the competi¬ 
tive system be re-established and the warden required to 
recognize the lowest bidder.” 

After commenting upon the borrowing of money and the 
payment of interest on such loans and recommending that 


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the Legislature make apropriations to meet all contingencies, 
as a better method, the report continued: 

“The item of traveling expenses for the biennial period 
December 31, 1914, amounted to $1716.20. The warden stated 
that was chiefly expended in paying the traveling expenses 
of himself and the Board of Prison Inspectors in visiting 
other institutions for the purpose of familiarizing themselves 
with modern cells to aid them in the construction of the 
new cell building. 

“We presume that it was very necessary for them to get 
information in this way, but it occurs to the minority mem¬ 
bers of this committee that the amount expended for that 
purpose was very large, averaging more tnan $2.35 per day 
for the biennial period. We can not believe that the ex¬ 
penditure of this sum was justified.” 

Cell Contracts Criticised. 

Concerning contracts for the new cell building the report 
said: 

“In relation to the contracts for furnishing material in 
the construction of the new cell building, the accountants 
in their report make some criticism. In some instances con¬ 
tracts were awarded and recorded and in some instances i.) 
contract could be found. 

“In commenting on this matter the accountants say: 

“ ‘Although there is a contract with the Allee-Jordan 
.-umber Company for the supply of cement, we do not find 
any contract for lumber for the new cell building. 

“ ‘Over $5000 was paid for this material, being within 
$8000 of the amount paid under the cement contract.’ 

“Again the accountants say: ‘The contracts are recorded 
in the Board of Inspectors’ minute books with the exception 
of the contract for cement entered into with the Alee-Jor- 
dan Lumber Company and the contract for vitreous tile with 
Charles Mace. 

“ ‘Further, these contracts are not recorded or signed by 
members of the Board of Inspectors, although they are 
parties to the contract, Mr. McClung being the only signature 
for the state. 

“ ‘We call attention to this in the hope that it may prevent 
the business of the Penitentiary from being so loosely con¬ 
ducted in the future.’ ” 

Continuing Ing and Harr say: 

“On page 12 of their report accountants say: 

“ ‘We observe that the Rumsey Manufacturing Company 
are supplying material in connection with the cell building, 
the sum of $1826.30 having been paid to them during the 
month of December, 1914. 

“ ‘There is no contract with this company, but in the 
files we found a bid which they made offering to supply 
pipe fittings, lead and slate for the sum of $17,955.’ 

“Mr. McClung stated,” continues the report, “that a con¬ 
tract was entered into with the Rumsey Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, but no such contract was produced. We do not doubt 
the making of the contract, but it occurs to us that it should 
be recorded with other contracts. We believe that closer 
attention should be paid to these details.” 


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Penitentiary Problems. 


Failure of the Democratic Administration to Solve Some That 

Are Important. ( 


The Missouri Penitentiary, which is the largest institution 
of its kind in the world, probably show's Democratic incompe¬ 
tency in its administration, both financial and otherwise, as 
much as does any other part of the State Government. The 
report of the minority of the legislative investigating com¬ 
mittee, included in this volume, deals with the financial affairs 
of the institution. Unfortunate as is the showing, it does not 
^constitute the most serious charge against the management. 

Missouri has particular occasion to be ashamed and humili¬ 
ated in that the present Democratic control of its chief prison 
for criminals misconceives and grossly misinterprets the 
proper purpose and spirit of the State in imprisonment of 
offenders against the law. 

The present regime has utterly failed to work out the im¬ 
portant problem of a proper substitute for the present expiring 
system of prison industrial contracts, so that many of the 
prisoners are now enduring and many more will soon endure 
the agonies of idleness, while the State is losing and will lose 
the earning power of these men as a proper offset against the 
cost of their maintenance. 

In view of the continued failure to meet this problem and 
solve it efficiently, it should be turned over to a party which 
has elsewhere met the issue and given it proper solution. 

The last contract for convict labor will soon expire and 
cannot be renewed unless the next Legislature changes the 
existing laws, w'hich it is not likely to do in the face of a dec¬ 
laration from every political party against the system. To 
understand the situation as it will be when the next Legisla¬ 
ture convenes, it is safe to say there will be close to 3,000 con¬ 
victs in the Penitentiary. There are 2,872 there now. 

About 1,200 of these convicts are earning 75 cents a day 
per working man for the State. All of this will cease when 
the contracts expire, as they must do during the first year of 
the next State administration under the law as it now stands. 

The last two Democratic Legislatures knew full well what 
conditions the abolition of the contract system would bring 
about unless it provided some means for giving the convicts 
employment. It did nothing of the kind save to make pro¬ 
vision for a small State plant to manufacture clothing and 
other wearing apparel for the inmates of other State Institu¬ 
tions. 

Several years ago a Legislature passed a law permitting 
convicts to be worked on the public highways, but nothing 
has been done to encourage this system. In fact, the adminis¬ 
tration has discouraged it from the start. 

With a few hundred convicts employed in the State plants 
there probably will be 2,500 convicts without-any means of 
earning their keep, and it costs 51 cents a day for each con¬ 
vict’s sustenance. The institution is costing the State a 




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large sum of money now, and there will be a heavy deficiency 
for its upkeep by the end of the year and the close of this 
administration, and this will be greatly augmented when the 
convicts now employed by the contractors are added to the 
idle inmates. 

The modern method of punishment for crime, now accepted 
in most of the great states of the Union, directs itself chiefly 
to the cure of crime and to making good men and good citi¬ 
zens. To this end expert criminologists are used—men who 
have given to the subject years of study, based on experience 
in the prisons of the world. The treatment of the prisoners in 
the Missouri State Administration is under the old and incom¬ 
petent system of punitive vengefulness—a system that makes 
more criminals and continues men in crime by accentuating; 
the resentment against the social order and public authority 
upon which much crime is based. 

The sentiment of Missouri, led by the organized women of 
the State, is now demanding a complete and far-reaching 
revision of the methods of penitentiary control, along modern 
lines, and to this end it is insisting that this institution shall 
be emancipated from partisan management that is for strictly 
partisan ends. 


THE STATE PLATFORMS. 

The buncombe of platform rhetoric has perhaps never had 
a finer illustration than in some of the insincere claims of the 
Democratic set of formulated political views and principles. 
It “unreservedly indorses the wise, efficient and capable ad¬ 
ministration” of one of the cheapest and nastiest outfits of 
statehouse ringsters that ever handicapped progress in Mis¬ 
souri or any other State. * * * 

How a political crime may be changed by platform bun¬ 
combe into a political virtue is shown by the reference -to 
the porch-climbing invasion of the school fund. This dis¬ 
graceful plot is euphemistically termed a move to have “the 
apportionment of school funds forever settled by a decision 
of the Supreme Court” and is specifically indorsed. 

This act of political bankruptcy was committed in secret 
The public did not find it out for several weeks. A court 
test was refused for several more weeks by the ringsters in 
control of the machinery of the State government and was 
only resorted to as a means of escape from an uprising of 
universal indignation. To point with pride to so heavy a rec¬ 
ord of party liabilities is self-stultification.—St. Louis Post- 
Dispatch. 


WHITEWASH. 

“All the Democratic administration needs now to add the 
climax of damnation to its record is whitewash,” says the St. 
Louis Post-Dispatch, discussing the Democratic administration 
at Jefferson City. It adds: “A coat of whitewash will not con¬ 
ceal the school fund juggle, the penitentiary mismanagement, 
the nepotism, the extravagance and other sins of the ad¬ 
ministration; it win not cover the facts; it will not blind 
the people who will be well informed of the facts by oppo¬ 
sition and independent newspapers. 

“The whitewash will do nothing more than conspicuously 
signalize the effort of the Democrats to deceive the people. It 
will advertise the offenses.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 




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State Police Outrage. 


Partisan Use of the City Police Forces Calls for Universal 

I ndignation. 


Under the existing law, which places city police administra¬ 
tion in the hands of boards, a majority of which are named 
by the Governor, without any obligation to respect local senti¬ 
ment, the present Democratic control at Jefferson City is re¬ 
sponsible for the police affairs of these cities. Their power 
in this regard is arbitrary and almost absolute and it has been 
used in just this way. 

In the last four years every city in the State big enough to 
come under the law providing for control of the police from 
the Governor’s office, has had one or more police scandals. In 
all of them the question of service has been secondary to politi¬ 
cal scandals. In all of them the question af service has been 
made secondary to political and even factiopal considerations 
and an effort has been made to use the police force of these 
cities to build up a political machine which should bring into 
line various forces that need the favor and suffer from the an¬ 
tagonism of the police system- The use of the police in this 
way has extended to the primary, in connection with which 
their service has been requisitioned in favor of one Democratic 
faction and against another. In this connection the most fla¬ 
grant outrages have been perpetrated. 

At the recent primaries in Kansas City, the Chief of Police, 
acting under instructions of the Police Board, which doubtless 
had a straight tip from Jefferson City, called members of the 
force into his office and told them whom they must support 
for a certain office. Later there were a number of dismissals 
from the force and the newspapers openly charged that these 
men did not support the favored candidate and lost out solely 
on that account. 

This charge was never responsibly denied. 

In St. Joseph, there was repeated scandals of one kind and 
another as to the improper use of the police for political and 
factional control as well as otherwise. Recently, in the ab¬ 
sence of the Governor from the State, Lieutenant-Governor 
Painter removed the two members of the St. Joseph board for 
flagrantly offensive administration and now the new board 
is investigating the charge that police funds to the amount 
of $2,500 are missing and unaccounted for. The most common 
charge, however, is that police powers are unfairly and tyran- 
nously used to effect certain results. 

The same sort of scandals have arisen with regard to the 
St. Louis Board, which has been changed several times to sat¬ 
isfy public demands. 

The crowning outrage of this governor-controlled police 
system, however, occurred in Kansas City in April, 1916, in 
connection with the municipal election. The executive power 
at Jefferson City, as the result of some sort of a political deal 
with the Shannon faction of the Democracy, agreed that the 
police of this city should be used to further the election of 
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officers was prepared for election service and their first as¬ 
signment was to raid rooming-houses and cheap hotels where 
workingmen, white and colored, were domiciled, at 3 o’clock 
on the morning of election day, and cause the arrest of 311 
legal voters on “suspicion,” locking them up and holding them 
for “investigation.” These men, as far as was known then or 
has subsequently developed, had committed no offense and 
their aphehension and detention was a hatched up plan to keep 
them from casting a vote to which it is admitted they had 
a legal right. They were opposed to the Shannon ticket and 
that was the sum total of their-offense. They were herded 
In the city prison and every legal attempt to free them during 
the day was frustrated because these moves had been antici¬ 
pated and provided against in the original plot, which seems to 
have had the connivance and approval of the Democratic 
Mayor of Kansas City and the Democratic Governor of Mis¬ 
souri. Thus 311 citizens were deliberately and criminally de¬ 
prived of their right to vote by the tyrannical and outrageous 
use of the police power. Not one of the men arrested has since 
been prosecuted, though months have intervened and no pre¬ 
tense is made now that there was any just charge against 
them. 

While this high-handed outrage was being perpetrated 
with the connivance and under the arrangement of Governor 
Major’s police commission, at Kansas City, the Governor him¬ 
self was hiding at the home of Excise Commissioner Rumsey 
in St. Louis, so that he could not be reached by the outraged 
citizenship of Kansas City. When finally seen, he declared 
confidence in his Kansas City Commissioners and declined to 
discuss the matter further. Later, when outbursts of indigna¬ 
tion were heard from all parties on all hands, he declined to 
make any changes in the offensive police commission and 
declared that the matter “would soon blow over.” This atti¬ 
tude on his part at best left him open to suspicion of being a 
party to the conspiracy to rob men of their most sacred politi¬ 
cal right. This is one of the things which the Gardner Democ¬ 
racy of Missouri so fulsomely endorsed without exception or 
criticism. 


AN UNPRECEDENTED DEFICIT. 


Due to the outrageous extravagance and mismanagement 
of the Democratic administration at Jefferson City, a deficit 
of approximately $2,600,000 will meet the incoming state 
administration in 1917. 

In the face of this. Col. Gardner, Democratic candidate 
for Governor, claims that Missouri is the best managed 
state financially in the union and the Democratic state 
platform has brazenly endorsed this record of the Major 
administration as being “efficient and capable.” 

If Col. Gardner claims a deficit of these huge proportions 
shows good financial management, what character of a 
government could be expected under him? 




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Democratic Testimony 


Upon the Incompetent and Wasteful State Democratic 

Administration. 


Before the primaries the St. Louis Republic, the recognized 
organ of the Democratic party of Missouri, said editorially: 

“The State of Missouri is going to have a reorganization 
of its business methods. It is going to see to it that every 
official who handles state money, accounts for every dollar’s 
worth that passes through their hands. It is going to see 
to it that the spending end of the government and the taxing 
end as well, are brought together so that the state shall 
spend according to its income, ‘even as you and I.’ It is 
going to see that nepotism is made just as impossible as 
polygamy is. It is going to see that the multiplication of 
useless clerks, legislative or otherwise, and the overlapping 
of governmental functions is brought to an end.’’ 

And the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an independent Demo¬ 
cratic paper, commenting on the above, adds: 

“We are sure of one thing—the people will not choose 
their instruments of reform, the men who have made re¬ 
forms necessary—they will not elect the officials who are 
guilty of loose management, nepotism, extravagance, mul¬ 
tiplication of useless clerks, financial juggling and who 
have substituted a deficiency for a surplus, and they are 
going to see that the public school funds are not looted 
to cover a deficiency.’’ 


GARDNER APPROVES ALL. 


Col. Fred p. Gardner, Democratic candidate for Governor, in 
a speech at the Democratic State Convention, following the 
adoption of the Democratic platform, declared: “I am going 
to prove in this campaign that Missouri has been the best 
managed state financially under Democratic rule in the 
Union.’’ The platform plank he approved read as follows: 
“We heartily approve and unreservedly endorse the wise, effi¬ 
cient and capable administration of Governor Elliot W. Major 
and our other State officials. At no time in the history of 
the State have, the interests of the people been more conscien¬ 
tiously and effectively safeguarded.’’ 


“Col. Gardner at best is a man trying to ride into office on 
a hobby, and that hobby is a very wobbly land bank bill. The 
fact that every Democratic candidate in the primary attacked 
the bill does not speak well of it as a Democratic measure. 
The very fact farmers must pay more taxes to raise money for 
the state to loan shows it is a political trick which does 
not appeal to intelligent farmers themselves. The neces¬ 
sity for increasing greatly the number of State employes at 
Jefferson City to receive pay out of the State treasury sup¬ 
ported by farmers’ taxes helps make the scheme odious, when 
the intention has been to discontinue the extravagant mis¬ 
use of funds at Jefferson City. The Gardner scheme will 
conduce further to the present financial embarrassment of 
Missouri. If these appointees were to be appointed upon 
merit tests, that would relieve matters some, but the attor¬ 
neys who are to examine the abstracts and the men who are 
to value the securities and all othbrs necessary for the op¬ 
eration of the plan are subject to partisan appointment and 
control. This means enlarged pork barrel—the very things 
farmers do not want.’’—Jno. E. Swanger in Sedalia Capital. 







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Outrageous Gerrymanders 


Unfair Districting of the State to Secure Partisan Advantage. 


The virtual disfranchisement of a large number of voters 
takes place in every state election held in Missouri. Through 
the vicious gerrymander practiced in this state, about half of 
our citizens are denied a proper representation either in the 
United States Congress or in the Missouri State Senate. 

The Congressional apportionment of the United States 
is based on an average population of 211,887. In 1910, Mis¬ 
souri’s population was 3,293,335 and if the sixteen Congres¬ 
sional districts had been given a fair apportionment, each 
would have averaged about 206,000 population. 


But totally disregarding either the spirit or the letter 
of the law, the Congressional districts in this state are 
not only outrageously arranged from a territorial stand¬ 
point, but they vary in population from 142,621 in the Eighth 
district, to 416,389 in the Tenth district. The following 
table, giving the population of each Congressional district 
according to the 1910 census, and the vote in each district 
in 1914, shows the unfairness of this apportionment. 


Congressional Districts 

First . 

Second.. 

Third . 

Fourth . 

Fifth . 

Sixth . 

Seventh . 

Eighth . 

Ninth . 

Tenth . 

Eleventh . 

Twelfth . 

Thirteenth. 

Fourteenth . 

F’ifteenth . 

Sixteenth . 


Population 

174,971 

171,135 

159,419 

179,707 

283,522 

150,486 

218,182 

142,621 

190,688 

416.389 
203,667 

149.390 
167,188 
296,316 
226,374 
163,280 


Vote 1914 
33,287 
22,534 
32,479 
32,305 
52,409 
27,331 

42.241 ■ 
29,769 
35,958 
82,835 
33,623 
22,654 
31,488 
49,612 

41.242 
30,813 


Through this dishonest and unfair apportionment. Dem¬ 
ocracy usually has an almost solid delegation in Congress, 
although the state is close politically and the Republicans 
have carried it three times in the last twelve years. 


The State Senatorial districts are even more outrageously 
arranged and it would require a Republican majority of 
50,000 to make the Senate Republican. There are 34 Sena¬ 
torial districts in the state and were they evenly apportioned 
according to the 1910 census, each district would have about 
97,000 population. Yet they vary from 61,000 to 142,000. 
The following table shows the population of each Senatorial 




















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district according to 

the 1910 census, and 

the last 

vote on 

State Senator in each 

district: 



Senatorial Districts 

Population 1910 

Vote 

Year 

First . 

. 67,264 

10,142 

1912 

Second . 

. 93,020 

13,676 

1914 

Third . 

. 92,380 

11,236 

1914 

Fourth . 

. 83,306 

16,213 

1914 

Fifth and Seventh . ., . 

. 283,522 

24,140 

1912 

Sixth . 

. 67,353 

8,437 

1914 

Seventh and Fifth . . . . 

. 283,522 

38,723 

1912 

Eighth . 

. 76,757 

16,725 

1914 

Ninth . 

. 68,432 

8,585 

1912 

Tenth . 

. 104,355 

11,839 

1914 

Eleventh . 

. 61,286 

13,115 

1912 

Twelfth . 

. 61,659 

13,441 

1914 

Thirteenth . 

. 87,971 

13,528 

1912 

Fourteenth . 

. 74,784 

15,861 

1914 

Fifteenth . 

. 86,984 

19,420 

1912 

Sixteenth , . . ’. 


14,840 

1914 

Seventeenth . 

. 79,424 

10,495 

1912 

Eighteenth . 

. 91,127 

18,302 

1914 

Nineteenth . 

. 124,905 

10,398 

1912 

Twentieth . 

. 125,018 

23,015 

1914 

Twenty-first . 

. 126,933 

13,998 

1912 

Twenty-second . 

. 86,962 

14,647 

1914 

Twenty-third . 

. 103,783 

15,968 

1912 

Twenty-fourth . 

. 74,050 

7,876 

1914 

Twenty-fifth . 

. 125,094 

15,624 

1912 

Twenty-sixth . 

. 100,394 

18,721 

1914 

Twenty-seventh . 

. 91,846 

17,377 

1912 

Twenty-eighth . 

. 89,673 

14,059 

1914 

Twenty-ninth . 

♦ 

30,308 

1912 

Thirtieth . 

* 

15,017 

1914 

Thirty-first . 


12,030 

1912 

Thirty-second . 


23,315 

1914 

Thirty-third . 


18,155 

1912 

Thirty-fourth . 

* 

30,434 

1914 


*Total population six St. Louis Districts, 687,029, averaging: 
114,505. 


The above tables show that in Congressional representa¬ 
tion, the one district has nearly three times the voting 
power of the other district, and in the State Senatorial 
districts, the same degree of unfairness exists. What jus¬ 
tice is there in a system which gives to the 142,621 popula¬ 
tion of the Eighth District one representative in Congress, 
and only gives to the Tenth EHistrict, with its 416,389 
population, one representative in Congress? 

The apportionment in this state is made solely in the 
interest of the Democratic party and it deprives the citizens 
of the State of equal representation in both Congress and 
the State Senate. 

Any system which deprives a voter of the full power of 
his vote is a crime against the ballot, whether it be done 
directly by the election crook, or indirectly through legis¬ 
lative enactment. Every good citizen of the state, irrespect¬ 
ive of political affiliation, should see that this crime against 
the ballot and blot on the fair name of the State, brought 
about by Democratic misrule, is removed. 


The State Treasury is facing ?. deficit of $2,500,000.00. 
Where is Mr. Gardner going to get the million dollars with 
which to start his bank? 


The Gardner bill will create ?. multitude of political Jobs to 
be filled by party workers and paid by the State. Has not 
the State enough such job-holders already? 






































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Gardner Land Loan Law. 


Pet Measure of the De.nocratic Gu.bernatorial Candidate 

Dissected. 


Among the admitted issues in the present campaign in 
Missouri is the so-called Gardner Land Loan Law (of which 
Col. Fred. D. Gardner, the Democratic candidate for gov¬ 
ernor, is the reputed author), which a Democratic legisla¬ 
ture enacted into law, for the validation of which a consti¬ 
tutional amendment is proposed and which the Democratic 
State platform specifically approves and the Republican 
State platform specifically disapproves in its present defect¬ 
ive form, though favorable to the rural credit proposition 
in proper form. 

The Gardner Law, which does not go into effect until 
December 1st under its own terms, creates what is known 
as the Missouri Land Bank, under the direction of a board 
of managers composed of the governor, attorney-general, 
secretary of state, state treasurer and state auditor. This 
bank is to be attached to the state bank commissioner’s 
office, which shall transact the business with the addition of 
necessary clerks and an indefinite number of land apprais¬ 
ers at $2,000 and expenses each. Money shall be loaned 
only to increase the production of the land, to make useful 
improvements thereon, to pay off liens or encumbrances, or 
to make part payment on the purchase price where the bor¬ 
rower is paying part of the money. The loans shall be from 
$250.00 to $10,000, with preference for those asking less 
than $5,000, and shall not exceed in amount a fifty per 
cent valuation of the land. The security shall be a first 
lien on perfect fee simple titles, free from curtesy, dower 
and homestead exemptions. Repayment may be in install¬ 
ments covering from five to twenty-five years. The bank 
shall be authorized to buy in defaulting lands when neces¬ 
sary to protect the loan. ‘ The rate of interest on the first 
^>500,000 loaned shall be 4.3 per cent, with one-half of 1 
per cent to the reserve fund, to be returned to,the borrower 
if not exhausted by necessary expense. The later rate of in¬ 
terest is to be based on the proceeds from the sale of de¬ 
benture bonds, exempt from taxation, based on the farm 
mortgages made, but shall not exceed 6 per cent. To furnish 
the original loaning capital, $1,000,000 was appropriated by 
the legislature “from monies on hand in the state treasury.” 

The first objection to this measure is that the Missouri 
treasury does not provide the capital it demands, $1,000,000. 
As the state’s strong box has not enough money to meet 
the regular current demands of the state government and no 
prospect of more than sufficient for this purpose under the 
present wasteful regime, the only chance of getting the 
money is to increase the tax rate for this specific purpose 
or to issue bonds on the credit of the state. Either alterna¬ 
tive would require a popular vote and in both cases the burden 
would fall mainly upon the farmer and home-owner, with 
their visible assets, which the assessor never misses and 
which cannot be hidden. 




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The measure is condemned further by the fact that its 
important and sacred functions, comprising the handling 
of millions of dollars of the people’s money designed to be 
dedicated to the worthy purpose of agricultural promotion 
and relief, is turned over to politicians, who may be wholly 
inexperienced and untrained in banking processes and whose 
first thought generally is of selfish political and factional 
results. The inevitable outcome would be the scandalous 
prostitution of the state bank not only to the purpose of 
influencing general elections but primary contests as well. 
This would, be sure to entail upon the taxpayers, always 
chiefly the farmers, the burden of tremendous ultimate cam¬ 
paign bills for-the re-election of state offlcials or the nomin¬ 
ation and election of their friends. 

The oportunity for the multiplication of political jobs is 
practically unlimited. Clerks could be added at indeflnite 
pay and an army of political workers under the title of 
“land appraisers,’’ at $2,000 and liberal expenses, would be 
sure to open a new and attractive road for politicians to 
the treasury. The cost of this raid would fall mainly on the 
farmer whose taxable valuation is all out-doors, where the 
assessor could not overlook it if he wore blinders. 

The promise of the friends of the law, implied in the pre¬ 
liminary interest rate and claimed otherwise, that money 
would be loaned to farmers at 4.3 per cent, with one-half 
of 1 per cent for the reserve fund, is deception. The law only 
provides that 4.3 per cent shall be the prevailing charge on 
the first $500,000, loaned out of the money provided from the 
state treasury. Later the rate is to be fixed from the proceeds 
derived from the sale of debenture bonds, based on mortgage 
notes, and exempted from taxation. The presumption that 
these bonds will stand a low rate of interest and command 
a premium because of the tax exemption, is not well-based. 
Bond-buyers usually get an exemption by failing to return 
tbeir bonds for taxation and they don’t care to pay a very big 
price for legal exemption. Besides, the fact that most of these 
mortgages run for many years would detract from their 
attractiveness in the market, if it did not make them un¬ 
saleable. Experienced brokers say, that, in all probability, 
the maximum rate of 6 per cent would have to be charged 
and that, even then, with the expensive machinery, the state 
would lose money on the transaction. 

In going into the banking business, it has generally been 
admitted on all hands among intelligent men, that the ex¬ 
penses and losses of the bank should be met by the profits. 
Under the bill as passed there is not a penny of profit accru¬ 
ing to the State. No issue is taken on that. Now, who pays 
the expense of running the banks? Who bears the losses, 
the general taxpayer or the borrower? That is a vital in¬ 
quiry. The bill takes no adequate note of this deadly feat¬ 
ure and offers no adequate safeguard. If it proposed that the 
borrowers pay the expense and meet the losses out of the 
one-half of one per cent they pay on the amount they bor¬ 
row, then that creates a fund each year of $5,000 on each 
million loaned. Does any intelligent man suppose that the 
bookkeeping, the stationery, the books, the postage, the sal¬ 
ary of clerks, and especially the salaries and expenses of ap¬ 
praisers in this intricate and vast experimental bank will not 
exceed that amount by many thousand dollars for each mil¬ 
lion loaned? Now what process is there for paying the excess, 
or for meeting the losses? If it is intended the taxpayer 
should do so, should not the bill frankly say so and make 
provision for it? 


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There is no provision in the bill itself limiting the exist¬ 
ence of the bank or providing for winding it up, if the experi¬ 
ment should prove disastrous or unsuccessful. 

The bill makes the State collect the interest on the mort¬ 
gage debts, the State then hands over to the debenture holder 
the interest on his debenture, sold him by the State. Sup¬ 
pose these two amounts, because of bad crops, death, or other 
accident or disaster, do not equal each other, what then? Is 
it the intention that the State or the captial of the bank make 
good the difference and keep up the credit of the debentures 
for the time being by paying the interest? If so, then the 
bill should have frankly said so and made provision for it. 
It certainly does not. If the debenture holder is to take the 
chance of his collecting agent, the State, not having been 
able to collect and hence not able to pay the debenture in¬ 
terest, the point should have been made clear by the bill. 

The credit of the debenture on the market, certainly de¬ 
pends on a clear understanding on that point, and the bill is 
silent. If the credit and honor of the State are'pledged in 
that vital respect, then the State should know it. If not, the 
debenture holder should know it and the bill should make it 
clear. It does not. 

What provision in the bill is there for seeing to it that the 
money loaned is actually and honestly devoted by the borrow¬ 
er to the express purpose provided by the act? None. What 
penalty is there for using the borrowed money in any way 
the wit or needs of the borrower suggests to him or di¬ 
verting it from the purposes of the law? None. The bill 
stops short with handing over the money. There is a good 
deal of doubt as to whether an effective provision could be 
drawn covering this point. 

In view of the fact that the provisions of the new land law 
gives the land loan business over to the politicans, with 
practically no restriction of their opportunities for expen¬ 
diture for jobs, there is every reason to believe that if the 
expense of operations under its provisions were all charged 
up to the borrowers from its funds in the rate of interest, 
the burden then would be higher than they now pay in mak¬ 
ing loans with private concerns, including the loan commis¬ 
sions. If the expense isn’t all charged in the interest rate, 
then it is paid by the taxpayer and the biggest portion of it 
falls on the farmer. In other words, the method provided in 
the Gardner Land Loan Law will defeat the purpose which it 
professes in its title, which is cheap loans to the farmer, add 
indefinite burdens upon the general taxpayers and threaten 
great loss and scandal to the state through the wide-open op¬ 
portunity for graft that is given. 

At best, the loaning of money by the State is a doubtful 
experiment. No state of this union has ever tried it and no¬ 
body can be assured of the result under the most favorable 
circumstances. Under the worst circumstances, which is a 
fair description of those that prevail in the case of the Gard¬ 
ner Law, it isn’t even an experiment. It hasn’t a chance. 

It has been said that the Gardner law is a step toward a 
single tax measure. Its exemption of debenture bonds from 
taxation and its consequent loading of this additional bur¬ 
den upon the farm show unmistakable tendencies in that 
direction. The St. Louis Mirror, the organ of the single 
taxers in Missouri, welcomes and approves it as a step in 
the right direction, promising that there will be more to 
follow. 


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MYRON T. HERRICK'S OPINION. 

Hon. Myron T. Herrick, who, when minister of the United 
States to France, made careful and extended study of rural 
credit laws as they are operated in European countries, and 
who has come to be known as the best American authority on 
this subject, has these significant words of comment on the 
Missouri law: 

“The law looks more like a stump speech than a statute. 
Are you sure that the clerk of the legislature did not inad¬ 
vertently put in some of the debate occurring at its passage? 
It is so verbose, so poorly framed, so jammed with repeti¬ 
tions, useless phrases and inconsistencies, and so honey¬ 
combed with loopholes that it might be fairly likened to a 
gopher or prairie dog colony in a weedy pasture. 

“The Court would perhaps declare its clarification an im- 
possiDle task. Any attempt to carry it into effect would lead 
to endless litigation. It would furnish more fees for lawyers 
than funds for farmers. However, what I gather from it is 
this: 

“ *The proposed Missouri land bank is not a bank nor even 
a company. It is nothing but a scheme to place $1,000,000 
in the hands of the governor, attorney general, secretary of 
state, state treasurer, and state auditor, and also to author¬ 
ize them to issue state bonds whenever they please, in order 
to raise money to lend to friends, at the risk and expense of 
taxpayers in town and city and county. 

“ ‘Since the majority of these officials usually belong to 
tne same party, they will grant loans to Democratic and 
foreclose on Republican farmers. Or, if the political tables 
turned, they will grant loans to Republican and Progressive 
and foreclose on Democratic farmers. At least such is the 
way the few similar government institutions existing in Eu¬ 
rope are operated. ' 

“ ‘Indeed, they could not be operated in any other way, 
because (as anybody knows who knows anything about 
finance) the State does' not have enough money to lend to 
everybody, while, if the state should issue bonds in the enor¬ 
mous quantities needed for raising money for everybody, 
the State’s credit would become so impaired that bonds would 
sell off at such a bad discount that the State could not get 
money anywhere near the current market rate. 

“ ‘Consequently, the only thing the officials could be expect¬ 
ed to do is to try to accommodate a limited number of par¬ 
ticular friends. So the sole advantage of a government insti¬ 
tution lies in political pull and favoritism. This, however, 
has always ended in dissatisfaction and not infrequently in 
disaster, the taxpayers footing the bill. The farmers suffer, 
of course, the worst from this because they have more tax¬ 
able property in proportion to their wealth than any other 
citizen.’ ’’ 


The more the farmers of Missouri find out about the Gard¬ 
ner law, what it does to them and what it fails to do for 
them, the less they will think of both the law and its author. 

Wliat excuse is there for this dangerous experiment by the 
State when the Federal Government is right now making the 
experiment itself and has behind it its vast power and 
wealth. Why drive the farmer to this bank to get cheap 
money? If freedom from taxation on a loan cheapens in¬ 
terest (ag it does) why not cheapen all money by taking off 
taxes on all loans and let the farmer get cheap money wher¬ 
ever he can—from his neighbor, for example?—Judge Henry 
Lamm. 



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FIFTEEN VITAL DEFECTS IN GARDNER MEASURE. 

A careful distinction should be drawn between an efficient 
plan of rural credits and the scheme now before the voters 
of Missouri known as the Gardner plan. Fifteen reasons (any 
one of which is sufficient to kill the Gardner measure) are 
condensed as follows: 

1. The legislature (Laws 1915, page 199) appropriated one 
million dollars of State money to start the bank. All men 
know there is no money in the State Treasury available for 
that purpose and that the over-appropriations amount to sev¬ 
eral million. Where will funds be obtained to start the 
bank? 

2. Government land loans are still an experiment. It is 
not wise for Missouri to engage in the land banking business 
at least before the national government measure has been 
tried. 

o. The bank is purely a partisan affair. (Laws of 1915, page 
1916.) No provision is made for the appointment of clerks, 
land appraisers and other employees as a result of civil 
service tests to test their knowledge of banking affairs or 
land values, but all appointments may be made because of 
political affiliation. This means a new crop of party em¬ 
ployees to feed at the public pork barrel and eat up taxes 
paid by everybody to the State. Also, it means the land bank’s 
oiucers are cnanged every four years as the result of a po¬ 
litical campaign. Who ever heard of running a bank in 
this way? 

4. There is no provision made for apportioning money 
evenly among the counties. This means that the political 
favorite of those in charge will get what money they want 
and others can go “hang.” 

5. Ihe board of governors consists of the Governor, Attor¬ 
ney General, State Treasurer, Secretary of State, and Audi¬ 
tor—all of them busy in other state affairs, all of them are 
politicians and none of them expert bankers. 

6. The scheme smells of single tax. If the State loans 
vast sums of money which the act in effect makes exempt 
from taxes, it means the additional tax burden must be 
borne by some other form of property and the land is the 
main thing that is left to tax. 

7. The scheme does not give money to the man who needs 
it most. A farmer’s land must be worth at least five hun¬ 
dred dollars before he can get a loan. (Laws 1915, page 
197). A borrower whose land is worth that amount and has 
“the perfect fee simple title, free from curtesy, dower and 
homestead exemptions” can get a loan now as cheap as the 
Gardner acts provides. Furthermore, the act makes no pro¬ 
visions for the town home owner who is trying to pay off 
the debt on his home. 

8. The prosecuting attorney and attorney general are com¬ 
pelled to pass upon all land titles. (Laws 1915, page 198). 
This additional task means the appointment of many assist¬ 
ant prosecuting attorneys and attorney generals'to examine 
abstracts of title—all to be paid by the State out of taxes 
paid by all. 

9. It is proposed to pay expenses, salaries, losses, etc., out of 
a one-half of one per cent reserve fund which the borrower 
pays in addition to the regular interest charged. All men 
know that this expense and these losses cannot be met on 
one-half of one per cent. This means either additional taxes 
to run the bank or raise interest rates on loans. 


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10. The law reads more like a stump speech than a practical 
statute. The endless litigation resulting would furnish more 
fees for lawyers than funds for farmers. 

11. If we adopt the land bank bill this fall we are doing 
more than placing a law on our statutes. Under the present 
scheme, we are making a land bank scheme a part of the 
Missouri Constitution. 

12. Every man knows that losses occur in the banking bus¬ 
iness. Who is to take care of the losses—unless the taxpayer 
again? If the bill expects the taxpayer to meet the losses, 
why doesn’t it say so frankly and provide a means. If this 
means the State shall pay them, that means the taxpayer. 

13. What mortal is fool enough to believe the State can 
issue forty million dollars’ worth of debenture bonds (an 
amount proposed) based on the one million dollars capital 
provided, and still maintain the financial honor and credit of 
the State? 

14. There is no provision made for the State or any one 
else to pay the debenture bondholder in case the State (as a 
collecting agent) fails to collect the interest on the loans. 

15. This scheme is conducive to social unrest, because the 
taxes which support the measure are levied on all alike, and 
because interest is not cheapened to all needy citizens. 


An Inspiring Job 

Having given fulsome endorsement of the Major adminis¬ 
tration, we presume the Democratic candidates for State of¬ 
fices will enthusiastically defend it. 

They will defend and praise nepotism. 

They will defend and praise the brutal and incompetent 
mismanagement of the penitentiary. 

They will defend and praise the muddling of the State 
finances and the attempt to rob the school of funds to meet 
the deficiency. 

They will praise and defend discrimination in taxation. 

They will paint Gov. Major as a model of courage and 
ability. 

They will praise and defend Gov. Major’s juggling with 
the excise to further his political ambitions. 

They will hail devotion to the tango as the cap sheaf of 
qualifications for the office of Governor. 

They will assure the people that the Gardner administra¬ 
tion, if the Democrats carry the State, will be a fac-simile of 
the Major administration. 

They will appeal to the enthusiastic admiration of the peo¬ 
ple of Missouri for Major and his works as a reason for the 
election of Col. Gardner, who was, of course, nominated on 
account of his enthusiastic support of the Major adminis¬ 
tration. 

In living up to their platform declaration the Democratic 
candidates will have an inspiring and cheerful job—St. Louis 
Post-Dispatch. 



REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN TEXT-BOOK—1916. 

Cowgill’s Testimony 


The Democratic State Chairman’s View of State Auditor 

John P. Gordon. 


The following letter, with the name of James Cowgill, now 
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, first among 
the Democratic signers, was sent broadcast throughout the 
State immediately following the date indicated: 

July 22nd, 1916, 

Dear Sir: 

We wish to call your attention to some of the many reasons 
why Mr. John P. Gordon should not be nominated by the 
Democrats of this State for Auditor at the August primaries. 
We do this in the interest of the Democratic party. 

Missouri is a Democratic State, and will remain so if 
we get aw'ay from the^ notion that we can elect any one we 
nominate. The State is now close, and the party should nomi¬ 
nate no man for any office who is weaker than his party. 
The importance of Missouri in the national election is very 
great, and it would be an inexcusable blunder for the party 
to load down the ticket with weak candidates and thereby 
endanger the national ticket. 

We do not like to say anything against Mr. Gordon, but it 
is clear to any thinking man that he is not a fit candidate for 
the party to nominate for Auditor at this time, Mr. Gordon 
has been in office two terms. A third term is always unpop¬ 
ular, and there is no reason why Mr. Gordon should receive 
this unusual honor- On the contrary, there are strong rea¬ 
sons why he should not receive it. He is justly charged with 
gross nepotism, and in his defense of this he cites Republican 
precedent. This will not do. No candidate should have to 
fall back on so weak a justification for a wrong official course 
on his part. He has so conducted himself in office as to 
have incurred the hostility of tens of thousands of the friends 
of the State University. No weaker candidate could be found 
in the State. His' nomination would weaken, and we fear 
endanger, the whole ticket. We protest against such folly 
on the part of the members of our party, 

John T. Wayland is especially qualified for the position of 
State Auditor, and if nominated and elected will conduct 
the office without reproach, and without placing members of 
his family upon the payroll the State; and he is w^orthy 
of the confidence of his party and the people of this State. 

Yours very truly, 

(Signed) JAMES COWGILL, 

W. T. KEMPER, 

R. J. INGRAHAM. 

Mr. Kemper is President of the Commerce Trust Co., Kan¬ 
sas City, and Mr. Ingrahanij is a prominent lawyer in the 
same city. Both are prominent Democrats. 




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Agriculture the Basis 


Some Wholesome Sentiment From a Fourth of July Speech by 

Walter S. Dickey. 


“History reveals that the great nations of the past have all 
been established upon the basis of agriculture. The popu¬ 
lation at first consisted of strong, simple-living, nature-loving 
people who tilled the soil. As their numbers increased and 
they became more affluent, the drift of population was to the 
towns and cities. Production upon the farms decreased and 
consumption in the cities increased, while the cost of living 
mounted. Wealth brought love of ease and less willingness 
to labor and toil, until finally, with physical and moral flab¬ 
biness, the population was weakened and unable to resist the 
attacks of younger nations on their borders who were not 
weakened by a life of ease. In time the cities were be¬ 
leaguered by the strong, hardy agricultural peoples from 
without, resulting in the fall of that nation. Some writers 
and thinkers claim to see in our national life today the germs 
of this disease. I hope and pray not, but this is something 
for you to think about. 

“The remedy consists of building counter attractions in 
the life of the country, and that rests with both parents and 
children. We should plan to encourage better living condi¬ 
tions upon the farm. Among the means to this end of 
which I have already told you in part is good roads and 
the solution of the problem of quick, easy transportation all 
over this broad land of ours. Good roads are the key to 
the whole back-to-the-farm movement. Other factors are 
the rural telephone, rural electric plants for both lighting 
and power and some provision for an improvement of the 
sanitary conditions in the smaller farm homes. What house¬ 
wife would not be encouraged and delighted to have the 
conveniences of artificial light and hot water supply in the 
home, all of which can nowadays be procured at astonish¬ 
ingly small costs. The enlarged use of school property as a 
social center for the development of the social side of the 
country life, its use as an auditorium for public gatherings, 
debating and study clubs and a thousand other things, 
which suggest themselves. 

“As soon as country life is made attractive through these 
agencies and as soon as the conveniences and advantages 
compare favorably with those to be obtained in the cities, 
then and only then will this seemingly disastrous drift from 
country to city, stop. Farm labors should be lightened 
and profits increased through the use of labor-saving machin¬ 
ery. Particularly is this true of the women’s work on the 
farm. The solution of this problem would give father and 
mother more time for family life, allow some recreation in 
the way of visiting and travel, unify the home life of the 
family and encourage a greater solidarity of family rela¬ 
tions. 

“We should also take up with greater vigor the questions of 
improved crop conditions, rotation, production, fertilization 
and the increase of farm earnings by these methods. Give 
the children something of interest to do, stimulate and en¬ 
courage ambition and a desire for better conditions. Let 
them earn something for themselves. I would consider it a 
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to the young people, both boys and girls upon the farm, the 
things they crave and must have in the very exhuberance 
of their youth.” 

The Good Roads Problem. 

"As a part of this program, we must increase our trans¬ 
portation facilities. We must secure in this country, forth¬ 
with—right now—in some way and by some means, hard-sur 
faced wagon roads .all over this land of ours. Why, it ought 
to be possible for a woman with a baby buggy, or a man 
with a push cart, or a farmer with a two-horse load, or a 
man with a ten-ton truck, to get about over any part of this 
country, night or day, rain or shine, north, south, east and 
west, without any regard to the condition of the weather. 

“There is a plan under consideration whereby these roads 
may be obtained now and I will briefly outline it to you. It 
is the result of the studies of a commission appointed under 
the government and which spent two years in the investi¬ 
gation of this, one of the greatest problems of our time. 

"The bill is known as the Bourne Bill, and you can get a 
copy, by writing your congressman. It contemplates using 
the credit of the Federal Government to secure a large 
amount of money, $500,000,000, at the low rate of 3 per cent, 
by an issue of bonds. This money is to be divided among 
the states in an equitable manner, based upon (1) their miles 
of roadway; (2) their area in square miles; (3) their popu¬ 
lation and (4) their assessed valuation. So that Rhode Island, 
with its intense population and small area would receive, in 
proportion, the same amount as a state like Texas, with a 
large area and a small population per square mile. The 
Federal Government would then take from the states their 
four per cent bonds in an equal amount, thus effecting a 
saving of 1 per cent in the interest rate by the use of 
credit of the Federal Government. That one per cent sav¬ 
ing, if left with the Government and compounded semi-an¬ 
nually, would, in forty-six years, furnish a fund sufficient 
to retire or pay off the original issue of bonds, so that, by 
paying the interest on these bonds for forty-six years, the 
principal would be paid by the saving effected in the use 
of the Federal Government’s credit. Now this is one plan 
and it’s something to think about and study about and I 
hope you’ll take it home with you, for the good roads prob¬ 
lem is one of the big problems this government is facing 
and must solve and solve now. 

River Improvement.- 

"Next in the general scheme comes the development cf 
our great inland waterways—the rivers. You know, under the 
constitution, the .Federal Government is given supervision 
and jurisdiction over all navigable streams. If a stream is 
navigable, you cannot bridge it, or divert the current, or take 
water out of it, or pollute it in any way, without first obtain¬ 
ing a permit from the Federal Government, and I hold ihat 
authority of supervision carries with it an implied responsi¬ 
bility that the Government shall maintain these streams 
in a navigable condition. Whenever the Government says, 
‘Here is the bank and there is the bank of this stream,' then 
it is possible for the land owners on either side to create 
a levee district and reclaim that land which is now going 
to waste, and that of itself would afford an immense amount 
of tonnage immediately available for river transportation. In 
addition, think of the large deposits of raw materials, silica 
sand, clays, kaolins, bouxite and other materials, which are 
now not utilized that could afford employment to thousands 
and thousands of men were they developed. Many of them are 


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so located as to make shipment of the finished goods made 
from them unprofitable except at rates lower than the rail¬ 
roads can afford to make. 

“Then with the improvement of these rivers, must come 
their canalization and this hooking up with the great lakes 
and with each other, where possible, thus affording a very 
network of inland waterways and an all-water route to the 
seaboard.” 


SOME POLITICAL HISTORY. 


The address of Col. Gardner, Democratic nominee for Gov¬ 
ernor, at the opening of the State Democratic campaign is 
full of inaccuracies, the most glaring and unfair one being as 
follows: 

“In 1873 when the Democratic party assumed control of the 
State’s affairs, a bonded debt of $40,000,000 was left as a heri¬ 
tage of Republican misgovernment.” * * * 

There is nothing to justify this statemeiit. While Demo¬ 
cratic candidates and Democratic platforms have misrepre¬ 
sented the political history of the State, none have gone to 
the extreme that Col. Gardner has gone in this statement. 

The Democratic State platform in 1900 charged that when 
the Democratic party came into control in 1873, it found a 
bonded debt of $21,768,000, for which the Republicans were 
blamed. While it is true that this amount of bonded debt 
existed at that time, the Democratic platform was not fair 
enough to state that this and a much larger debt was a legacy 
from a previous Democratic administration. The Republican 
party came into power in Missouri in 1865 and at that time 
found a bonded debt, created under Democratic rule, of over 
$36,000,000. In the eight years that the Republicans were in 
control, this debt was reduced over $14,000,000, and when they 
went out of power in 1873, there remained $21,768,000 of the 
debt which existed when they came into power. The above 
are historical facts. To charge, either directly or by implica¬ 
tion, that this debt was a result of Republican administration, 
indicates either an ignorance regarding Missouri’s history, or 
an attempt to misrepresent historical facts. 


The merchant, the butcher, the grocer, the baker, mechanics, 
laborers and trades-people of all kinds will be taxed by the 
Gardner bill, and yet they are prohibited under the provisions 
of that bill from borrowing any money from the Gardner land 
bank. 


The Gardner bill places the management of the land bank 
in the hands of the same State officials who have managed 
the penitentiary during the past three years, and who tried 
to take $334,189.31 from the State school funds. Do the people 
of this State want to place the loaning of $40,000,000.00 in 
such hands? 


The Gardner bill places in the hands of any ring which 
may be entrenched in Jefferson City, a powerful political club 
over the head of the borrowing farmer, which might be used 
with telling effect in campaig.n times. Can the people of 
Missouri conceive a more effective way of perpetuating such 
a ring? 








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Republicans Admit This 


The Party Agrees With Col. Gardner on One Proposition at 

Least. 


“1 believe present conditions can be better preserved under 
a Democratic than under a Republican administration." 

The above statement was frankly made by Col. Fred D. 
Gardner in his speech, opening the Democratic campaign in 
this State. We heartily agree with Mr. Gardner in his state¬ 
ment. No Republican administration would continue the 
shameful condition of affairs that exists in Missouri today. 

Never have the finances of the State been in worse condi¬ 
tion. The State is virtually bankrupt. Construction of build- 
i::'.gs at State institutions has been stopped, due to a lack of 
funds. Virtually every State institution has either been com¬ 
pelled to borrow money to pay its current needs, or else is 
months behind in meeting its obligations. The State peni¬ 
tentiary has had to borrow at least $150,000; the State Uni¬ 
versity a short time ago borrowed $83,000 and was making 
arrangements for an additional $50,000; the School for Feeble¬ 
minded at Marshall has over $70,000 due it from the State, 
and the Confederate soldiers, who were expecting State aid 
during their declining years, have over $150,000 due them, 
which the State cannot pay. 

The condition of the State’s finances is such that the five 
leading State officials met in secret conference in May, 1915, 
and agreed to take from the schools over half a millian dol¬ 
lars, a proceeding which was stopped only through court 
action. 

Extravagance has run riot at Jefferson City, the last Legis¬ 
lature having over-appropriated revenues $4,973,275. Nepotism 
has been practiced to such dn extreme that even the present 
Democratic State chairman joined in a circular letter sent 
over the State asking the defeat of Democratic candidates on 
that account. It is conservatively estimated that when the 
present year closes the State will face a deficit of about 
$2,600,000. Never have conditions been in worse shape than 
now, yet the Democratic State platform adopted at Jefferson 
City, endorsed this record as being “efficient and capable" and 
the Democratic candidate for Governor claimed that Missouri 
w'as “the best managed State financially in the Union." 

We heartily agree with Col. Gardner that the present shame¬ 
ful conditions in Missouri can best be continued under a 
Democratic administration. If the voters desire this and 
feel that they can stand another administration of the Major 
stripe, it can be had by electing Gardner and keeping Democ¬ 
racy in power. 




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Practices Single Tax 


The Democratic Candidate for Governor Does His Taxpaying 

That Way. ' 


The advocates of the Gardner Land Bank bill deny that this 
bill is a single tax measure. Whether this is true or not, it 
cannot be denied that Col. Gardner has been practicing Single 
Tax in this State for a number of years. 

Single Tax, in plain terms, means the levying of taxes only 
on land, while personal property escapes taxation. In 1913, 
Col. Gardner, while signing bonds in the Federal Court, made 
an affidavit that he was the owner of a million dollars worth 
of personal property, free and clear of incumbrance. In the 
same year he returned to the assessor of St. Louis a personal 
property list of only $2,600, and in the years since then, his 
personal tax assessment has not exceeded $3,470. 

Gardner may attempt to deny that his Land Bank bill is a 
Single Tax measure, but it can hardly be denied that he is 
practicing this system of taxation. No single tax practitioner 
is wanted for Governor of Missouri. 


“We rejoice in the creation and expansion of these United 
States of America, in the glorious success attained by our Re¬ 
publican form of government and in this great, rich, new 
country on the North American continent becoming the mod¬ 
ern cradle of liberty; that in the latter part of the eighteenth 
century our shores were sought, as they are now, by the op¬ 
pressed of all lands and all tongues, as the permanent home 
and abiding place of all who craved political, religious and 
personal liberty. 

“Here have come the pioneer, optimistic, able-bodied people 
of every clime, seeking a home in the new world, and with 
the opportunities presented in this great, rich, new land. The 
foreigner is soon acclimated, naturalized, intermarried and 
helpfully assimilated with our people, till all signs of his 
former nationality have been effaced, and through the democ¬ 
racy of our public schools, the children soon take on the spirit 
of the new land. I am a believer in the theory that 'our popu¬ 
lation has been much strengthened, both physically and men¬ 
tally, by the crossing of the strains and by the constant on¬ 
coming of emigrants from the old world.”—Walter S. Dickey, 
in Fourth of July Speech at Sedalia. 


“We must, if our greatness is to continue and we are to 
keep in the front rank of the nations of the earth, turn our 
attention to the average man, the unit of America’s greatness. 
We must encourage the maintenance of the American home 
and the American fireside, and think and act in a big way 
for the big crowds of workers carrying on the industries that 
must serve to multiply our greatness in the eyes of all the rest 
of the world.”—Walter S. Dickey, in Fourth of July Speech 
at Sedalia. 





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Republican State Committee 

Chairman—T. W. Hukriede.Warrenton. . .Warren Co. 

Vice-Chm.—John H. Bothwell. . . Sedalia.Pettis Co. 

2d Vice-Chm.—R. W. Van Trump... Kansas City. Jackson Co. 

Secretary—Judge Louis HoffmanSedalia.Pettis Co. 

Asst. Sec’y—Horace Beedle.St. Louis. 


Treasurer—A. L. Shapleigh.St. Louis.4th and Washington 


1st 

District—C. W. Mullenix. . . . 

Dr. E. B. Clements. 

. Unionville . . , 
. Macon. 

. .Putnam Co. 

. Macon Co. 

2d 

District—Roy H. Monier. 

H. B. Gilfillan. 

.Carrollton. . . 
.Moberly. 

.Carroll Co. 
.Randolph Co. 

3d 

District—L. R. Kautz. 

B. F. Channell. 

. .Bethany.... 

. Weatherby. . 

Harrison Co. 

.De Kalb Co. 

4 th 

District—W. F. Phares. 

W. W. Head. 

. Maryville. . . 

. .St. Joseph. . . 

. Nodaway, Co. 
.Buchanan Co. 

5th 

District—Judge Fred Coon. .. 

Jesse L. Martin. . . . 

.Kansas City. .North Side Court 
. Independence.Jackson Co. 

6th 

District—W. H. Allen. 

Phil S. Griffith. 

. Clinton. 

. Greenfield. . . 

..Henry Co. 

.Dade Co. 

7 th 

District—John H. Bothwell. 

R. C. Patterson.... 

. Sedalia. 

. .Springfield. . 

.Pettis Co. 

.Greene Co. 

8th 

District—Dr. G. W. Duncan. . 

W. F. Quigley. 

. Iberia. 

. .Tipton. 

.Miller Co. 
.Moniteau Co. 

9th 

District—-Clarence A. Barnes. 

J. H. Fisher. 

.Mexico. 

.Sullivan. 

.Audrain Co. 

, .Franklin Co. 

10th 

District—Otto F. Stifel. 

S. Mark Dodd. 

. St. Louis. .. . 

. Ferguson. . . 

.2007 Hebert St. 

. St. Louis Co. 

11th 

District—A. C. Kunze. 

Fred Weitz. 

. St. Louis. .. . 
. St. Louis. .. . 

.4430 Page Ave. 
.3533 N. Broadway. 

12th 

District—Gus Frey. 

Hugh K. Wagner. . 

. St. Louis. . . . 
. .St. Louis. . . . 

.936 Morrison Ave. 
.Fullerton Bldg. 

13th 

District—H. D. Evans. 

Dr. W. E. Urban. . . . 

.Bonne Terre 
.Perryville. . . 

St. Francois Co. 
.Perry Co. 

14th 

District—F. E. Smelser. 

Dr. J. W. Bruton. . . 

. Doniphan . . . 

. Ozark. 

. Ripley Co. 
.Christian Co. 

15th 

District—Amos Gurley. 

W. J. Sewall. 

, Purdy. 

. Carthage. . . . 

.B'arry Co. 

.Jasper Co. 

16th 

District—R. C.‘ Rhodes. 

Wm. P. Elmer. 

.Seymour. . . . 
.Salem. 

. Webster Co. 

.Dent Co. 


EAECITIVE C03IMITTEE. 


Chairman—Edmond Koeln.St. Louis 

MEMBERS. 

Edw. W. Foristel.St. Louis 

John Schmoll .St. Louis 

Otto Stifel .St. Louis 

Dr. E. B. Clements.Macon 

H. D. Evans.Bonne Terre 

Dr. G. W. Duncan.Iberia 

W. S. Wade.Springfield 

Judge D. J. Haff.Kansas City 

Amos Gurley.Purdy 

Thos. R. Marks.*.Kansas City 

FIX VxXCE COMMITTEE. 

Frank X. Heimenz.St. Louis 

Hugh K. W'agner. St. Louis 

A. L. Shapleigh.. .St.,Louis 

A. E. L. Gardner.Clayton 

Edwin W. Lee. St. Louis 

G. A. Buder... ^ .St. Louis 

Arnold J. Hellmich. St. Louis 

W. W. Henderson.St. Louis 

Daniel N. Kirby. St. Louis 

Henry W. Blodgett.St. Louis 










































































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Officers of County Committees 


COUNTY NAME ADDitESS 

Adair.Dr. C. M. Wilcox, Chairman .. Kirksville 

Jno. T. Wadclill, Secretary.... Kirksville 
Jno. T. Wadclill, Treasurer.... Kirksville 

Andrew.William Dale, Chairman.Helena 

C. E. Stevenson, Secretary.... Savannah 
Henry Bruns, Treasurer.Savannah 

Atchison.W. M. Rankin, Chairman.Tarkio 

Thos. A. Laur, Secretary.Westboro 

Geo. B. Donavan, Treasurer.. Rockport 

Audrain.Ralph E. Head, Chairman.Mexico 

H. P. Averit, Secretary.Mexico 

Harry Householder, Treas.... Mexico 

Barry.E. N. Meador, Chairman.Cassville 

John Black, Secretary.Washburn 

J. C. McQueen, Treasurer. . . .Cassville 

Barton.Anthony Gilmartin, Chairman . Lamar 

Miss Ora Van Pelt, Secretar 5 '. Lamar 
Thos. Egg-er, Treasurer.Lamar 

Bates.C. A. Chambers, Chairman .... Butler 

Jno. O. App, Secretarj^.Adrian 

Jno. O. App, Treasurer.Adrian 

Benton.E. H. Preuitt, Chairman.AVarsaw 

Chas. Petts, Secretary.Warsaw 


Bollinger.Wm. Abernathy, Chairman... Lutesville 

Henry Smith, Secretary.Marble Hill 

Jesse McLaiighlin, Treasurer. .Lutesville 

Boone.E. A. Remley, Chairman.Columbia 

E. V. Davis, Secretary.Columbia 


Buchanan.N. H. Kueker, Chairman.St. Joseph 

716 Felix St. 

H. H. Darnell, Secretary. ' St. Joseph 

1315 N. 13th. 

Walter P. Fulkerson, Treas...St. Joseph 

Butler.E. E. Whitworth, Chairman ... Poplar Bluff 

John A. Gloriod, Secretary.... Foplar Bluff 
AVillis AV. Turner, Treasurer.. F'oplar Bluff 

Caldwell.M. E. Feltis, Chairman.Kingston 

R. F. Phares, Secretary.Hamilton 

D. T. Tooma.y, Treasurer.Braymer 

Callaway.Fred D. Williams, Chairman .. Fulton 

A. AA''. Brigleb, Secretary.Fulton 

John L. Erwin, Treasurer.... Fulton 

Camden.T. W. Farmer, Chairman.Linn Breek 

AA^. G. Nelson, Secretary.Linn Breek 

J. M. Farmer, Treasurer.Linn Breek 

Cape Girardeau . .Fred Kies, Chairman.Jackson 


Carroll.A. G. Roemiller, Chairman ... Carrollton 

Ben S. Heins, Secretary.Carrollton 

• T. A. Vandergrift, Treasurer .. Carrollton 

Carter.Phillip Brame, Chairman.Ellsinore 

Joe Condray, Secretary.Ellsinore 

Geo. Ellis, Treasurer.Fremont 

Cass.D. H. Kirk, Chairman.Garden City 

Chas. A. Hays, Secretary.Harrisonville 

Chas. AV. Hight, Treasurer.... Hai risonville 






















































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Officers of County Committees 


COUNTY NAME ADDRESS 


Cedar.A. .J. Swingle, Chairman.El Dorado Springt 

M. D. Gwinn, Secretary.Stockton 

O. B. Williams, Treasurer.... El Dorado Spring-.* 


Chariton.... 

O. K. Benecke, Secretary.... 
Geo. Dean, Treasurer. 

. Salisbury 
. Brunswick 
. Keytesville 

Christian . . . . 

F. E. Wall, Secretary. 

Jas. F. Adams, Treasurer. . . . 

. Sparta 
.Sparta 
.Ozark 

Clark. 

O. G. Watson, Secretary. 

O. G. Watson, Treasurer. 

. Kahoka 
. Kahoka 
. Kahoka 

Clay_.'. . . 

Geo. W. Riddle, Secretary... 
Sam W. Diemer, TreasurerT.. 

.Excelsior Springs 
. Kearney 
.Liberty 

Clinton. 

.John E. Frost, Secretary. . . . 
John E. Frost, Treasurer.... 

. I^athrop 
. Plattsburg 
. Plattsburg 

Cole.. . 

...Geo. W. Wagner, Chairman.. 

J. P. Forth, Secretarj^. 

E. P. Billat, Treasurer. 

.Jefferson City 
.Jefferson City 
.Jefferson City 

Cooper. 

C. B. Harlan, Secretary. 

Ellis W. Davis, Treasurer. . . 

.Wooldridge 
.Pilot Grove 
. B'oonville 

Crawford. . . . 

...Harry Clymer, Chairman.... 
Chas. M. Leezy, Secretary. . . . 
J. Will Barron, Vice-C. 

.John Roher, Treasurer. 

. Steelville 
. Steelville 
. Cuba 

R. F. D. No. 1. 

. Bourbon 

Dade. 

Phil S. Griffith, Secretary... 
R. H. Merrill, Treasurer. 

. Lockwood 
. Greenfield 
.Greenfield 

Dallas. 

. . . J. P. O’Bannon, Chairman... 

T. G. Leach, Secretary. 

James A. Bonner, Treasurer. 

. Buffalo 
.Buffalo 
. Buffalo 

Daviess. 

....Moses Mann, Chairman. 

Fred Harrison, Secretary.... 
.Joseph McElwain, Treas. 

.Gallatin 

.Gallatin 

.Gallatin 

De Kalb. 

. . . .B. L. Folks, Chairman. 

W. H. Harrison, Secretary... 
E. G. Robison, Treasurer.... 

.Maysville 
.Maysville 
. Maysville 

Dent. 

. . . .Wm. C. Askin, Chairman.... 
John W. Roberts, Secretary. . 
John W. Roberts, Treasurer. 

. Salem 
. Salem 
. Salem 

Douglas. 

Jtobt. F. Jenkins, Secretary. . 
I. T. Curry, Treasurer. 

. Ava 
. Ava 
.Ava 

Dunklin. 

. . . .Luther Conrad, Chairman. . . . 

R. J. Smith, Secretary. 

John McAnally, Treasurer... 

. Campbell 
.Campbell 
. Ivenneth 

Franklin.... 

. . . .W. J. Gott, Chairman. 

Arthur Rusche, Secretary. .. . 

.New Haven 
. AVashington 


Gasconade.Alonzo Tubbs, Chairman.Owensville 

Fred C. Meier, Secretary.Bland, R. F. D. 

C. K. Meyer, Treasurer.Morrison 

Gentry.Dr. E. R. Bindley, Chairman . .Stanberry 

Dr. C. N. Williamson, Sec’y• •-Oentrj^ 

John H. Gilbert, Treasurer... .Stanbei ry 

























































86 REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN TEXT-BOOK—1916. 

Officers of County Committees 


COUNTVT NAME ADDRESS 

Greene.Jerry Owen, Chairman.Springfield 

707 Lombard 

T. H. Gideon, Vice-Chairman .. Springfield 

R. F. D. 7. 

W. H. Barton, Vice-Chairman.Ash Grove 
Martin L. Howard, Secretary Springfield 
Arthur R. Lee, Treasurer.Springfield 

Grundy.P. G. Wild, Chairman.Trenton 

W. N. Border, Secretary.Dunlap 

Geo. H. Hubbell, Treasurer... Trenton 

Harrison.L. R. Kautz, Chairman.Bethany 

F. M. Frisby, Secretary.Harrison 

.L. N. Brown, Treasurer.Bethany 


Henry.Perce Bolinger, Chairman.Clinton • 

Wm.,F. Hall, Secretary.Clinton 

A. B.'Bridges, Treasurer.Windsor 

Hickory.R. H. Jenkins,- Chairman.Cross Timbers 

Elmer Wilson, Secretary.Hermitage 

B. L. Coon, Treasurer.Hermitage 


Holt.Frank Walker, Chairman.Bigelow 

Oakley Morris, Secretary.Mound City 

James Williams, Treasurer... Forbes 


Howard.A. B. Southworth, Chairman .. Glasgow 


Lionel Davis, Secretary.Fayette 

.L. W. Jacobs, Treasurer.Fayette 


Howell 


Iron 


Chas. Ferguson, Chairman .... Willow Springs 
Edward Clark, Secretary.West Plains 


,Jos. C. Forshee* Chairman.... Ironton 
L. R. Stanforth, Secretary....Ironton 
Fred D. Kendell, Treasurer ... Ironton 


Jackson, 


.Emil Dorn, Chairman. . . . 
James M. Rader, Secretarj 


.Kansas City 
1121 Grand Av. 
.Kansas City 
1121 Grand Av. 

Charles Baird, Treasurer.Kansas City 

Cor. Ninth St. 
and Grand Ave. 


Jasper..W. B. Kane, Chairman.Joplin 

' 319 Main St. 

W. F. Maring, Vice-Chairman . Carthage 
Robt. F. Stewart, Vice-Chair.. Webb City 
Geo. G. Brader, Vice-Chair... Joplin 

O. E. Lichliter, Secretary.Joplin 

A. Benson Clark, Treasurer... Joplin 

Jefferson.Albert Miller, Chairman.Hillsboro 

W. E. Crow, Secretary.De Soto 

J. F. Walther, Treasurer.De Soto 

Johnson.O. G. Boisseau, Chairman.Holden 

L. O. Holiday^ Secretary.Holden 

Dr. L. H. Schofield, Treas.Warrensburg 

Knox.Dr. Chas. A. Brown, Chairman . Edina 

Geo. H. Hickman, Secretary.. Edina 
Geo. H. Hickman, Treasurer.. Edina 

Laclede.Chas. Vernon, Chairman.Lebanon 

Earl Barrows, Secretary.Lebanon 


Lafayette.E. M. Taubman, Chairman... .Lexington 

U. G. Phetzing, Secretary.Lexington 

DanT Hoefer, Treasurer.Higginsville 

Lawrence.Harry Whaley, Chairman.Mt. Vernon 

Leo Simmons, Secretary.Mt. Vernon 


Lewis 


C. L. Zenge, Chairman.. 
E. L. Newlon, Secretary 
E. L. Newlon, Treasurer 


Canton 

Lewistown 

Lewistown 





























































REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN TEXT-BOOK—1916. 


Officers of County 


Committees 


COUNTY NAME ADDRESS 

Lincoln.S. R. McKay, Chairman.Troy 

Jno. F. Glenn, Secretary.Troy 

A. L. Monroe, Treasurer.Hawk Point 

Linn.A. C. Ferris, Chairman.Brookfield 

C. E. Lambert, Secretary.Brookfield 

Alpha Michael, Treasurer.Marceline 

Living-ston.Elton L. Marshall, Chairman. .Chillicothe 

F. W. Cornus, Secretary.Chillicothe 

Wm. Eylenburg, Treasurer.. .Chillicothe 

McDonald.Dr. O. S. McCall, Chairman... Rocky Comfort 

Claud Duval, Secretary.Pineville 

T. W. Roberts, Treasurer.Goodman 

Macon.W. T. Robinson, Chairman.... La Plata 

Nat M. Lacy, Secretary.Macon 

Chas. L. Farrar, Treasurer. . . .Macon 

Madison.H. P. Ward, Chairman.Fredericktown 

Hugh Anderson, Secretary.... Fredericktown 
Dr. C. W. Davis, Treasurer... Fredericktown 

Maries.F. J. Keep, Chairman.Vienna 

J. O. Bassett, Secretary.Vienna 

J. H. Bodenclick, Treasurer. . .Vienna 

Marion.C. E. Rendlen, Chairman.Hannibal 


Mercer.jGrant Duble, Chairman.Princeton 

,N. L. Melton, Secretary.Princeton 


Miller...Elmer E. Hart, Chairman.Eldon 

Jas. Spearman, Secretary.Tuscumbia 

Louis .Edwards, Treasurer. . . .Tuscumbia 

Mississippi.Kenneth Anderson, Chairman. Charleston 

Dr. Charles Pease, Secretary.. Wyatt 
E. W. Presson, Treasurer.Charleston 

Moniteau.L. L. Carter, Chairman.California 

W. N. Stanton, Secretary.California 


Monroe..W. E. Flanders, Chairman... .Paris 

Thos. E. Sparks, Secretary.... Holiday 
J. S. Walters, Treasurer ..;... Stoutsville 

Montgomery.T. W. Gill, Chairman.Montgomery City 

Clyde Donnelson, Secretary.. .Montgomery City 
Daniel Mills, Treasurer.Wellsville 

Morgan.H. A. Young, Chairman.Versailles 

H. N. Lutman, Secretary.Versailles 

W. A. Buell, Treasurer.Versailles 

New Madrid. . .-. .E. N. Blackman, Chairman. . . .Parma 

C. W. Stevenson, Secretary... .Lilbourn 
Peter Smith, Treasurer.New Madrid 

Newton.C. E. Curtice, Chairman.Neosho 

H. S. Bales, Secretary.Neosno 

B. H. Cto,ruthers, Treasurer.. .Neosno 

Nodaway.W. R. Tilson, Chairman.Maryville 

H. L. Ramis, Secretary.Maryville ; 

Arch Frank, Treasurer.Maryville 

Oregon.John Vincent, Chairman.Thayer 

H. M. Williams, Secretary.Alton 

C. S. Gohn, Treasurer.Alton 

Osage.Tno. W. Vosholl, Chairman ..Linn 

T. A. Dubrouillet, Secretary. . .Linn 
T. A. Dubrouillet, Treasurer. .Linn 






















































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Officers of County Committees 


COUNTY 

naaje 

ADDRESS 

Ozark. 

. .Hugrh Layton, Chairrhan. 

.John C. Harlan, Secretary... 
John C. Harlan, Treasurer... 

. Gainesyille 
. Gainesyille 
. Gainesyille 

Pemiscot. 

. .B. L. Gufty, Chairman. 

Paul L. Horner, Secretary. . . 

. Haytl 

.Caiuthersyille 


Arthur Farrar, Treasurer. . . 

. Carutheasyilk 

Perry. 

..Chas. E. Kiefner, Chairman.. 

Palph Killian, Secretary. 

Joe Fenwich, Treasurer. 

. Perryyille 
Perryyille 
Perryyille 

Pettis. 

. .Jno. C. McLaughlin, Chairman 
Carl S. Hoffman, Secretary... 
C. E. Messerly, Jr., Treasurer 

. Sedalia ^ 

. Sedalia J 

Sedalia 

l^helps. 

. . J. Ellis Walker, Chairman... 

O. D. Hall, Secretary. 

Albert J. Greinke, Treasurer. 

. Rolla 

St. James 
.St. James 

Pike. 

. . C. L. Carroll, Chairman. 

E. B'. Harkrider, Secretary... 

.Louisiana 

- 

E. B. Harkrider, Treasurer. . . 


Platte. 

. .T. H. Turner, Chairman. .’.... 

A. Termier, Secretary. 

A. Termier, Treasurer. 

W eston '*• 

Weston ' 

AVeston 

Polk. 

...I. M. Leayitt, Chairman. 

.Joe W. Grayely, Secretary... 

- Joe W. Grayely, Treasurer. . . 

Boliyar 

Boliyar 

Pulaski. 

Chas. Dodd, Secretarj'. 

H. H. Mackney, Treasurer... 

AVaynesy ille 
Bloodland 

Crocker 

Putnam. 

..Lee Robbins, Chairman. 

C. W. Mullenix, Secretary... 
G. E. McCutcheon, Treasurer. 

Unionyille 
Unionyille -• 

Unionyille 

Ralls. 

. Jos. W. Elliott, Chairman.... 

Ed. Dorman, Secretary . 

Ed. Dorman, Treasurer . 

Nevy London 

New I.,ondoji 

New London 

Randolph . 

. . H. B. Gilflllan, Chairman . 

.J. R. Mabee, Secretary . 

P. H. Shirrell, Treasurer . 

Moberly 

Huntsyille 

Moberly 

Ray . 

. .Perry L. Lebold, Chairman. . . 

Wm. Howe, Secretary . 

Jas. M. Francis, Treasurer... 

Lawson 

Hardin 

Rayyille 

Reynolds. 

. .Dr. C. C. Simmons, Chairman 
. 1 . M. Russell, Vice-Chairman 

Sam Hopkins, Secretary. 

S. L. Culler, Treasurer . 

Bunker 

Carteryille '' 

. Carteryille 

Bunker 

Ripley . 

. . F. E. Smelser, Chairman . 

Geo. S. Green, Secretary . 

Doniphan 

.Naylor 


A. I^. Dizmang, Treasurer. . . . 

Poynor 

Saline . 

. .M. L. Francis, Chairman . 

Leonard Van Dyke, Secretary 
Leonard Van Dyke, Treas. . . . 

• 

Slater 

Marshall 

Marshall 

Sell Liyler . 

. .Oliyer H. Simmons, Chairman 
Geo. B. Shaffer, Secretarv... 
John Brower, Treasurer . 

T.,a ncaster 
. Jjancaster 

Queen Citj^ ’ ' 

Scotland . 

. , G. E. Ijeslie, Chairman . 

O. E. Mankopf, Secretary. . . . 
C. E. P. Selby, Treasurer . 

. Memphis 
.Memphis '1 

.Granger 

Scott. 

. .W. H. Tanner, Chairman. 

R. M. Tirmenstein, Secretary 
Lee Dohogne, Treasurer....'. 

S'keston 

.Benton ^ 

Kelso ", 




















































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Officers of County Committees 


COUNTY 

NAME 

ADDRESS 

Shannon. 

. John E. Church, Chairman. . . 
D. L. Williams, Secretary*. . . . 
D. L. Williams, Treasurei''. .. . 

Winona 

.Winona 


Winona 

Shelby. 

. J. W. McCloskey, Chairman.. 
Thos. C. Brown, Secretary... 

Shelbina 

Clarence 


Clayton Woodward, Treas... 

.Leonard 

St. Charles.... 

. .W. F. Weinrich, Chairman... 

John G. Duebbert, Secy. 

Otto Boekemeier, Treasurer. 

.St. Charles 
.St. Charles 
.St. Charles 

St. Clair. 

. .Geo. W. Davis, Chairman. .. . 

T. G. Bernard, Secretary. 

.John W. Minks, Treasurer. . . 

.Osceola 

.Osceola 

.Collins 

St. Francois. . . 

..las. J. Croke, Chairman. 

Geo. N. Fake, Secretarv. 

Alfred Johnson, Treasurer... 
Clyde Morsey, Asst. Sec’y. . . . 

Farmington 
.Bonne Terre 
Flat River 
Farmington 

Ste. Genevieve. 

..A. A. Baumgartner, Chairman 

F. J. A. Ernst, Secretary. 

F. J. A. Ernst, Treasurer. 

Ste. Genevieve 
.Ste. Genevieve 

St. Louis. 

. .1. W. Shields, Chairman. 

Otto J. Preiss, Secretary. 

Geo. M. Herpel, Treasurer. . . . 

Centaur 

R. F. D. No. ‘2 
.Clayton 
Clayton 

Stoddard. 

.J. G. Kirby, Chairman. 

Miss Addie L. Smith, Sec’y... 
Miss Addie L. Smith, Treas. . 

.Aid 

.Bloomfield 

Stone. 

. .1. G. Short, Chairman. 

(A F. Woodson, Secretary.... 
C. F. Woodson, Treasurer. . . . 

. Galena 
.Crane 

Sullivan. 

. .H. A. Higgins, Chairman. 

W. S. Shatte, Secretary. 

Geo. May, Treasurer. 

. Mi Ian 
.Milan 
.Cora 

Taney. 

. .U. G. Johnson, Chairman.... 

H. M. Blunk, Secretary. 

L. L. Parrish, Treasurer. 

. Forsyth 
Forsyth 
.Forsyth 

Texas. 

. .W. T. Elliott, Chairman. 

H. L. Gobble, Secretary. 

•Jesse Smallwood, Treasurer.. 

.Houston 
. Houston 
. Raymond ville 

Veinon. 

. Jl. S. Hart, Chairman. 

G. E. Charles, Secretary. 

(f. E. Charles, Treasurer. 

.Nevada 

Rinehart 

Warren . . . •. 

.D. S. B'ockhorst, Chairman... 

(Omil Roehrig, Secretary. 

E. S. Aydelott, Treasurer.... 

.Warren ton 
Warren ton 
Warren ton 

Wright. 

..A. M. Curtis, Chairman. 

Perlie Newton. Secretary. . . . 
Nathaniel Jones, Treasurer. . . 

Hartville 
. Hartville No. ;> 
Hartville No. 4 


Washington.Lawrence W. Casey, Chairman.Potosi 

W. A. Cooper, Secretary.Potosi 

P. P. Smith, Treasurer.Potosi 

Wayne.C. P. Bennett, Chairman.CreenviPe 

.T. J. Wilkinson, Secretary.... Piedmont 
Plsworth Barrow, Treasurer.. Greenville 

Webster.W. J. Calender, Chairman.Fordland 

Guy Winslow, Secretary.Marshfield 

Theron H. Watters, Treasurer, Marshfield 

Worth.Clias. Combs, Chairman.Allendnlp 

Phil S. Gibson, Secretary.Grant City 

A. M. Jones, Treasurer.Grant City 


























































INDEX 


A. 

Page, 

Askin, Wm. C,, Biography of. 13 

“Achievements,” Democratic . 53 

Appropriations, Democratic Legislative. 53 

Agriculture, the Basis, by W. S, Dickey. 78 

Admission by Republicans. 81 

B. 

Britton, Roy F., Biography of. 12 

9 

C. 

Cowgill’s Testimony Concerning J. P. Gordon. 77 

Certificates of Indebtedness. 46 

-Covering, Attempted According to Democratic Paper. 51 

Committee, Republican State. .. 84 

Committee, Republican County, Names of Chairmen.83 

Committee, Republican Executive. 84 

Committee, Republican Finance. 84 

Convicts, Unpaid Debt to. 55 

Ceil Contracts, Criticised. 63 

Compensation, Workmen’s . 26 

D. 

Dickey, Walter S., Biography of. 8 

Deficit, Unprecedented Under Democratic Rule. 67 

Democratic Testimony . 68 

Districting Unfair. 69 

Defects, Gardner Land Loan Law. 75 

E. 

Expenditures, Increased Under Democratic Administration. 52 

Expenditures, Shown by Treasurer’s Report. 52 

Em.ployes, Large Number of Legislative. 55 

‘Efficiency,” Democratic Administration Endorsed for.,.. 55 

Evrard, 1. N., Biography of. 19 

Extravagance, Democratic . 53 

Expensive Official, John P. Gordon. 49 

F. 

Finances, State Government. 53 

Family, Democratic Officials on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Gordon on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Roach on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Bradbury on Pay Roll. 57 

Family, Hawkins on Pay Roll. 57 

Family, Major on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Mosby on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Allen on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, McClung on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Rader on Pay Roll. 56 

Family, Dillard on Pay Roll. 56 








































F. 

Famiiy, Mitchell on Pay Roll. 57 

Poinding, Penitentiary . 47 

Finances, State . 39 

G. 

Gardner Law, Herrick’s Opinion of. 74 

Gardner Bill and Single Tax. 34 

Gardner Land Loan Law. 71 

Gerrymander, Democratic. 69 

Gordon, John P., High Priced Meals of. 49 

Gordon, John P., Salt Lake Trip. 49 

Governor, Actions Concerning Finances. 54 

Gardner Approves Major Administration. 68 

Good Roads Problem, by W. S. Dickey.*.. 79 

H. 

Hackmann, Geo. E., Biography cf. 15 

Higbee, Edw., Biography of. 18 

Herrick’s Opinion on Land Law. 74' 

I. 

Illiteracy, Record of in Missouri. 48 

Investigation Asked . 52 

Inspiring Job, Democratic Testimony Concerning it. 76 

Increased Expenditures . 42 

J. 

Johnson, Jas. M., Biography of. 17 

Juggling, Financial. 43 

• L. 

Legislative Employes, Increased Expense of. 55 

Lamm, Judge Henry, Biography of. 2 

M. 

Mason, Jas. H., Biography of. 14 

McClung, Activity of. 45 

Meat Contract, Penitentiary. 61 

P. 

Platform, Republican National . 20 

Platform, Republican State . 24 

Platform, Democratic State . 29 

Penitentiary, Republican Platform Declaration Concerning 27 

Penitentiary, Legislative Committee Report on. 58 

Penitentiary, Financial Management .^. 58 

Penitentiary, Failure to Solve Problems of. 64 

Political History . 8 q 

Pay Roll, State Increase of. 57 

Penitentiary, Investigation Concerning . 58 

Police Outrages Under Democratic Rule. 66 

Presidential Electors, Republican.! Inside Cover Page 

Providing for the Family. 46 








































R. 


Roads, Good, Republican State Platform. 26 

Roads, Good, by W. S. Dickey. 79 

River Improvement, by W. S. Dickey... 79 

S. 

Schools, Money Set Aside for. 57 

School Funds, Attempt to Divert. 33 

School Funds, Juggling . 43 

School Funds Shown by Counties. 34 

School Funds, Amount Democracy Attempted to Deprive 

Each County of. 34 

School Funds, Notes Concerning. 46 

State Pay Roll, Increase of. 57 

Servant Plan, Penitentiary. 50 

State Finances. 29 

Some Democratic Achievements. 43 

T. 

Thompson, L. D., Biography of. 16^ 

Treasurer, Report of, Shows Increased Expenditures. 52 

Tax, Single, Gardner Practices. 82 

W. 

MTiitewash . 65 

Waste of Public Money. 39 























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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 


0 023 070 864 1 


AN UNANSWERED 
CHALLENGE 

“I hereby challenge 
the Democratic State 
Officials to take the 
Taxpayers of this State 
into their confidence 
and tell them the exact 
condition of the State’s 
Finances and exactly 
how much the State is 
in debt to the Univer^ 
sity and the other 
State Institutions.” 
—Judge Henry Lamm. 




